diff --git a/srcpkgs/glib/template b/srcpkgs/glib/template
index fe5994f5fe..083c91617d 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/glib/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/glib/template
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--disable-fam --with-pcre=system --enable-static"
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config perl python libxslt docbook-xsl which"
-makedepends="zlib-devel pcre-devel>=8.30 libffi-devel dbus-devel"
+makedepends="zlib-devel pcre-devel>=8.30 libffi-devel>=3.1 dbus-devel"
 short_desc="The GNU library of C routines"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://www.gtk.org/"