diff --git a/srcpkgs/openjdk9-bootstrap/template b/srcpkgs/openjdk9-bootstrap/template
index 6c892f0e06f..54c10bd08cc 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/openjdk9-bootstrap/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/openjdk9-bootstrap/template
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ configure_args="
  --with-boot-jdk=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8-openjdk"
 make_build_args="images"
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config automake autoconf cpio tar unzip zip ca-certificates
- zlib-devel which openjdk8"
+ zlib-devel which openjdk8 make"
 makedepends="libXrender-devel libXtst-devel libXt-devel libXrandr-devel
  giflib-devel libpng-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel lcms2-devel cups-devel
  freetype-devel alsa-lib-devel fontconfig-devel zlib-devel"