diff --git a/recipes-security/refpolicy/refpolicy_common.inc b/recipes-security/refpolicy/refpolicy_common.inc
index d241343..1d88557 100644
--- a/recipes-security/refpolicy/refpolicy_common.inc
+++ b/recipes-security/refpolicy/refpolicy_common.inc
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ DEPENDS = "bzip2-replacement-native checkpolicy-native policycoreutils-native se
 
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-dev = " \
     python3-core \
+    m4 \
     "
 
 PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"