diff --git a/srcpkgs/gtk-doc/template b/srcpkgs/gtk-doc/template
index 4d4523cc1df..bd090a9c859 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/gtk-doc/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/gtk-doc/template
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ archs=noarch
 build_style=gnu-configure
 pycompile_version="$py3_ver"
 pycompile_dirs="usr/share/gtk-doc/python/gtkdoc"
-hostmakedepends="docbook-xml docbook-xsl itstool libxslt pkg-config python3"
+hostmakedepends="gettext docbook-xml docbook-xsl itstool libxslt pkg-config python3"
 depends="docbook-xml docbook-xsl libxslt python3-anytree
  python3-Pygments python3-lxml"
 short_desc="Documentation tool for public library API"