diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/git/git.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/git/git.inc
index ade99ecfe0..9b0d328bad 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/git/git.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/git/git.inc
@@ -118,6 +118,6 @@ FILES_${PN}-tk = " \
 
 PACKAGES =+ "gitweb"
 FILES_gitweb = "${datadir}/gitweb/"
-
+RDEPENDS_gitweb = "perl"
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"