diff --git a/commoncpp2.spec b/commoncpp2.spec
index 4b2b55c..b470cdf 100644
--- a/commoncpp2.spec
+++ b/commoncpp2.spec
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Group: System Environment/Libraries
 Source0: http://www.gnutelephony.org/dist/tarballs/commoncpp2-%{version}.tar.gz
 Patch1: commoncpp2-1.8.1-statfix.patch
 URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/commoncpp/
+BuildRequires:  gcc
 BuildRequires: libxml2-devel, zlib-devel, doxygen
 
 %description