diff --git a/ocaml-curses.spec b/ocaml-curses.spec
index f0eac76..71973c4 100644
--- a/ocaml-curses.spec
+++ b/ocaml-curses.spec
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ License:        LGPLv2+
 URL:            http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/ocaml-tmk/
 Source0:        http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ocaml-tmk/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 
+BuildRequires: make
 BuildRequires:  ocaml >= 4.00.1
 BuildRequires:  ocaml-findlib-devel >= 1.3.3-3
 BuildRequires:  ncurses-devel