diff --git a/multimedia/misc/exempi/pspec.xml b/multimedia/misc/exempi/pspec.xml
index b65f6e176e..9ce9918b77 100755
--- a/multimedia/misc/exempi/pspec.xml
+++ b/multimedia/misc/exempi/pspec.xml
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@
         <Summary>An implementation of XMP, based on Adobe SDK</Summary>
         <Description>exempi is a port of Adobe XMP SDK to work on UNIX and to be built with GNU automake. It includes XMPCore and XMPFiles, and exempi, a C-based API.</Description>
         <Archive sha1sum="445c20c1bad06c75ca5d1963662c25dd9bdf8e1d" type="tarbz2">http://libopenraw.freedesktop.org/download/exempi-2.5.1.tar.bz2</Archive>
+        <BuildDependencies>
+            <Dependency>expat-devel</Dependency>
+        </BuildDependencies>
     </Source>
 
     <Package>