diff --git a/tesseract.spec b/tesseract.spec
index e250642..b5d5ce7 100644
--- a/tesseract.spec
+++ b/tesseract.spec
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Source0:       https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/archive/%{version}%{?p
 # Tweak location of tessdata folder
 Patch0:        tesseract_datadir.patch
 
+BuildRequires: make
 BuildRequires: automake
 BuildRequires: autoconf-archive
 BuildRequires: gcc-c++