diff --git a/happy.spec b/happy.spec
index ead1539..35645fb 100644
--- a/happy.spec
+++ b/happy.spec
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ URL:            http://haskell.org/happy/
 Source:         http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/%{name}/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 # fedora ghc archs:
 ExclusiveArch:  %{ix86} x86_64 ppc alpha
-BuildRequires:  ghc
+BuildRequires:  ghc, ghc-devel
 BuildRequires:  ghc-rpm-macros >= 0.7.0
 BuildRequires:  autoconf, docbook-dtds, docbook-style-xsl, libxslt, libxml2
 BuildRequires:  ghc-mtl-devel
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ cd ..
 %changelog
 * Sat Jan 15 2011 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com> - 1.18.6-2
 - update to cabal2spec-0.22.4
+- BR ghc-devel
 
 * Sun Dec  5 2010 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com> - 1.18.6-1
 - update to 1.18.6