diff --git a/legacy/evas/configure.ac b/legacy/evas/configure.ac
index 38dc6834aa..d8f4646c77 100644
--- a/legacy/evas/configure.ac
+++ b/legacy/evas/configure.ac
@@ -1576,7 +1576,7 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE([build-examples],
        # put in here the dependencies for Evas' examples. they are
        # meant to be 'real world' usage examples, thus one will be
        # using higher level libraries on these programs
-       PKG_CHECK_MODULES([ECORE_EVAS], [ecore-evas])
+       PKG_CHECK_MODULES([ECORE_EVAS], [ecore-evas ecore])
     else
        build_examples="no"
     fi