diff --git a/media-libs/opencv/opencv-4.11.0.ebuild b/media-libs/opencv/opencv-4.11.0.ebuild
index 6fd08691f36e6..f160796760f61 100644
--- a/media-libs/opencv/opencv-4.11.0.ebuild
+++ b/media-libs/opencv/opencv-4.11.0.ebuild
@@ -338,6 +338,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 unset COMMON_DEPEND
 
 BDEPEND="
+	dev-util/patchelf
 	virtual/pkgconfig
 	cuda? ( dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit:= )
 	doc? (