diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index ebb07aff..4d86205c 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ AC_PROG_CC
 AM_PROG_CC_STDC
 AC_HEADER_STDC
 
-pkg_modules="gtk+-2.0 >= 2.6"
+pkg_modules="gtk+-2.0 >= 2.6 glib-2.0 >= 2.12"
 
 dnl echo -n "checking for  gthread-2.0 ... "
 dnl if pkg-config --exists  gthread-2.0 ; then