diff --git a/app-arch/tar/tar-1.25.bep b/app-arch/tar/tar-1.25.bep
index 1e54e5102..eed5f7d9c 100644
--- a/app-arch/tar/tar-1.25.bep
+++ b/app-arch/tar/tar-1.25.bep
@@ -4,9 +4,15 @@ SRC_URI="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.25.tar.bz2"
 CHECKSUM_MD5="6e497f861c77bbba2f7da4e10270995b"
 REVISION="1"
 STATUS_HAIKU="broken"
-DEPEND=""
+DEPEND="dev-libs/gnulib = 9999"
 BUILD {
 	cd tar-1.25
+	if [ ! -e `haikuporter -t`/dev-libs/gnulib/work/gnulib-9999 ] ; then
+		echo "gnulib not found, so updating it now..."
+		haikuporter -i gnulib
+	fi
+	echo "Copying gnulib to tar work directory..."
+	cp -a `haikuporter -t`/dev-libs/gnulib/work/gnulib-9999 .
 	./configure --prefix=/boot/common \
 		LDFLAGS="-lnetwork" \
 		FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1