diff --git a/nfs-utils.spec b/nfs-utils.spec
index 39b9442..c6ce0a1 100644
--- a/nfs-utils.spec
+++ b/nfs-utils.spec
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ License: GPL
 Buildroot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root
 Requires: portmap >= 4.0, sed, gawk, sh-utils, fileutils, textutils, grep
 Requires: modutils >= 2.4.26-9
+BuildRequires: automake
 BuildPrereq: nfs-utils-lib-devel libevent-devel libgssapi-devel
 BuildRequires: krb5-libs >= 1.4 autoconf >= 2.57 openldap-devel >= 2.2
 BuildRequires: nfs-utils-lib-devel >= 1.0.8-2