diff --git a/srcpkgs/peco/template b/srcpkgs/peco/template
index c4251c7a09..f590110f22 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/peco/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/peco/template
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ revision=1
 build_style=go
 go_import_path="github.com/peco/peco"
 go_package="${go_import_path}/cmd/peco"
+hostmakedepends="git-perl"
 short_desc="Simplistic interactive filtering tool"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="MIT"