diff --git a/srcpkgs/guile/template b/srcpkgs/guile/template
index ce953960d23..fd37a1952e5 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/guile/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/guile/template
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ version=2.0.14
 revision=8
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--disable-static --disable-error-on-warning"
-hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config texinfo"
 makedepends="gc-devel gmp-devel libatomic_ops-devel libffi-devel libltdl-devel
  libunistring-devel readline-devel"
 short_desc="A portable, embeddable Scheme implementation written in C"