diff --git a/system/base/attr/pspec.xml b/system/base/attr/pspec.xml
index 6bc2eea0..cacc7a1b 100644
--- a/system/base/attr/pspec.xml
+++ b/system/base/attr/pspec.xml
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@
         <Summary>Utilities for managing filesystems extended attributes</Summary>
         <Description>attr contains a set of tools for manipulating extended attributes on filesystem objects, in particular getfattr and setfattr.</Description>
         <Archive sha1sum="d7c88cb5db51c5e255a511b0a15e832fcdda5b4f" type="targz">http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/attr/attr-2.4.48.tar.gz</Archive>
+		<BuildDependencies>
+			<Dependency>readline</Dependency>
+			<Dependency>gawk</Dependency>
+		</BuildDependencies>
     </Source>
 
     <Package>