diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 70db346def..25e5d4e4a5 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1312,7 +1312,7 @@ GDK_DEP_CFLAGS="`$PKG_CONFIG --cflags  gthread-2.0 $GDK_PACKAGES` $GDK_EXTRA_CFL
 # into the pkg-config files
 #
 if test $enable_explicit_deps != yes ; then
-  GDK_PACKAGES="$PANGO_PACKAGES"
+  GDK_PACKAGES="$PANGO_PACKAGES gdk-pixbuf-2.0"
   GDK_EXTRA_LIBS=
 fi