diff --git a/recipes/tesseract/meta.yaml b/recipes/tesseract/meta.yaml
index 51cfd5b7e03d6..8ce4b2441a19b 100644
--- a/recipes/tesseract/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/tesseract/meta.yaml
@@ -17,12 +17,14 @@ build:
 requirements:
   build:
     - {{ compiler('c') }}
+    - automake
+    - autoconf
+    - pkg-config
+    - m4
   host:
     - libpng
     - jpeg
     - libtiff
-    - automake
-    - autoconf
     - libtool
     - zlib
     - leptonica