diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-gnome/recipes-support/appstream-glib/appstream-glib_0.7.18.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-gnome/recipes-support/appstream-glib/appstream-glib_0.7.18.bb
index 11d1442..3488fb5 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-gnome/recipes-support/appstream-glib/appstream-glib_0.7.18.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-gnome/recipes-support/appstream-glib/appstream-glib_0.7.18.bb
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
     libstemmer \
 "
 
-inherit meson gobject-introspection gettext bash-completion
+inherit meson gobject-introspection gettext bash-completion pkgconfig
 
 SRC_URI = "https://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/${BPN}/releases/${BP}.tar.xz"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "ca1ed22e3bde3912cb903aaa7de085d55771da454f1c0573fd9608e1de9c4002"