diff --git a/viewvc.spec b/viewvc.spec
index 3bf4981..9cb2f53 100644
--- a/viewvc.spec
+++ b/viewvc.spec
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 Name:           viewvc
 Version:        1.1.24
-Release:        3%{?dist}
+Release:        4%{?dist}
 Summary:        Browser interface for CVS and SVN version control repositories
 
 Group:          Development/Tools
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Obsoletes:      %{name}-selinux < 1.0.3-13
 Conflicts:      selinux-policy < 2.5.10-2
 
 BuildArch:      noarch
-BuildRequires:  python-devel >= 2.0, python-pygments
+BuildRequires:  python-devel >= 2.0, python-pygments, perl
 Requires:       rcs, diffutils
 Requires:       subversion >= 1.2
 Requires:       subversion-python >= 1.2
@@ -142,6 +142,9 @@ with decent performance when run under Apache.
 %attr(0700,apache,apache) %{_localstatedir}/spool/viewvc
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Jul 20 2016 Bojan Smojver <bojan@rexursive.com> - 1.1.24-4
+- add perl to build requirements
+
 * Tue Jul 19 2016 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.24-3
 - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Automatic_Provides_for_Python_RPM_Packages