diff --git a/package/apache/apache.mk b/package/apache/apache.mk
index cac62134ed..3efa6b0ac1 100644
--- a/package/apache/apache.mk
+++ b/package/apache/apache.mk
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ APACHE_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 # We have a patch touching configure.in and Makefile.in,
 # so we need to autoreconf:
 APACHE_AUTORECONF = YES
-APACHE_DEPENDENCIES = apr apr-util pcre2
+APACHE_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf apr apr-util pcre2
 
 APACHE_CONF_ENV= \
 	ap_cv_void_ptr_lt_long=no \