diff --git a/srcpkgs/openjdk7-bootstrap/template b/srcpkgs/openjdk7-bootstrap/template
index 4f839fe96a4..e7cdaacc888 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/openjdk7-bootstrap/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/openjdk7-bootstrap/template
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ configure_args="
  --prefix=${_final_jdk_home}"
 make_build_target=icedtea-boot
 make_build_args="SHELL=/bin/bash"
-hostmakedepends="cpio unzip zip ca-certificates autoconf automake pkg-config
+hostmakedepends="cpio tar unzip zip ca-certificates autoconf automake pkg-config
  libxslt wget gcc6-gcj-jdk-compat"
 makedepends="nss-devel cups-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel giflib-devel libpng-devel
  libXt-devel libXtst-devel libXp-devel libXrender-devel libXinerama-devel