diff --git a/programming/language/python3/python3-PLY/pspec.xml b/programming/language/python3/python3-PLY/pspec.xml
index 923b20aa21..ece21bb129 100644
--- a/programming/language/python3/python3-PLY/pspec.xml
+++ b/programming/language/python3/python3-PLY/pspec.xml
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
         <Archive sha1sum="10a555a32095991fbc7f7ed10c677a14e21fad1d" type="targz">https://sourceforge.net/projects/pisilinux/files/source/ply-3.11.tar.gz</Archive>
         <BuildDependencies>
             <Dependency>python3-setuptools</Dependency>
+            <Dependency>python3-devel</Dependency>
         </BuildDependencies>        
     </Source>