diff --git a/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh b/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh
index 5832cf36f6..e632a14326 100755
--- a/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh
+++ b/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh
@@ -241,6 +241,11 @@ required_perl_modules="Data::Dumper" # Needed to build host-autoconf
 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
 
+if grep -q ^BR2_PACKAGE_MPV=y $BR2_CONFIG ; then
+    required_perl_modules="$required_perl_modules Math::BigInt"
+    required_perl_modules="$required_perl_modules Math::BigRat"
+fi
+
 # This variable will keep the modules that are missing in your system.
 missing_perl_modules=""