diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/sdkext/cases/devtool.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/sdkext/cases/devtool.py
index 1072fb6095..a01bc0bfe2 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/sdkext/cases/devtool.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/sdkext/cases/devtool.py
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ class DevtoolTest(OESDKExtTestCase):
     def test_extend_autotools_recipe_creation(self):
         req = 'https://github.com/rdfa/librdfa'
         recipe = "librdfa"
+        self._run('devtool sdk-install libxml2')
         self._run('devtool add %s %s' % (recipe, req) )
         try:
             self._run('devtool build %s' % recipe)