diff --git a/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh b/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh
index afd30008e8..ea16a21e20 100755
--- a/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh
+++ b/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh
@@ -266,6 +266,7 @@ fi
 
 # Check that the Perl installation is complete enough for Buildroot.
 required_perl_modules="Data::Dumper" # Needed to build host-autoconf
+required_perl_modules="$required_perl_modules English" # Used by host-libxml-parser-perl
 required_perl_modules="$required_perl_modules ExtUtils::MakeMaker" # Used by host-libxml-parser-perl
 required_perl_modules="$required_perl_modules Thread::Queue" # Used by host-automake
 required_perl_modules="$required_perl_modules FindBin" # Used by (host-)libopenssl