diff --git a/media-libs/opencv/opencv-4.11.0-r1.ebuild b/media-libs/opencv/opencv-4.11.0-r1.ebuild
index 6da0024da9d0e..0f5fa4b50df4c 100644
--- a/media-libs/opencv/opencv-4.11.0-r1.ebuild
+++ b/media-libs/opencv/opencv-4.11.0-r1.ebuild
@@ -343,6 +343,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 unset COMMON_DEPEND
 
 BDEPEND="
+	dev-util/patchelf
 	virtual/pkgconfig
 	cuda? ( dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit:= )
 	doc? (
diff --git a/media-libs/opencv/opencv-4.12.0-r1.ebuild b/media-libs/opencv/opencv-4.12.0-r1.ebuild
index 2ee7157415608..ac0fa8a719c58 100644
--- a/media-libs/opencv/opencv-4.12.0-r1.ebuild
+++ b/media-libs/opencv/opencv-4.12.0-r1.ebuild
@@ -343,6 +343,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 unset COMMON_DEPEND
 
 BDEPEND="
+	dev-util/patchelf
 	virtual/pkgconfig
 	cuda? ( dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit:= )
 	doc? (