diff --git a/devel/subversion/Makefile b/devel/subversion/Makefile
index 2657e2e92ae..aaaa922330e 100644
--- a/devel/subversion/Makefile
+++ b/devel/subversion/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.70 2010/04/25 08:43:29 stsp Exp $
+# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.71 2010/06/23 17:38:29 landry Exp $
 
 COMMENT-main=		subversion revision control system
 COMMENT-perl=		perl interface to subversion
@@ -56,7 +56,9 @@ LIB_DEPENDS=	neon.>=26:neon->=0.26.2:net/neon \
 		sasl2.>=2::security/cyrus-sasl2 \
 		sqlite3::databases/sqlite3
 
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	${MODGNU_AUTOCONF_DEPENDS}
+# autogen.sh checks for libtoolize
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${MODGNU_AUTOCONF_DEPENDS} \
+		::devel/libtool
 
 MULTI_PACKAGES=	-main