diff --git a/srcpkgs/libxml2/template b/srcpkgs/libxml2/template
index 30b664fa9d..ae3a99910f 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libxml2/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libxml2/template
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ distfiles="http://xmlsoft.org/sources/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
 checksum=f2e2d0e322685193d1affec83b21dc05d599e17a7306d7b90de95bb5b9ac622a
 
 if [ "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
-	hostmakedepends="automake gettext-devel python-devel"
+	hostmakedepends="automake libtool gettext-devel python-devel"
 	pre_configure() {
 		sed -e "s|AM_CONFIG_HEADER|AC_CONFIG_HEADERS|g" -i configure.in
 		autoreconf -fi