diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libsoup/libsoup-2.4_2.54.1.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libsoup/libsoup-2.4_2.54.1.bb
index f243cbc898..b93a9fde73 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libsoup/libsoup-2.4_2.54.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libsoup/libsoup-2.4_2.54.1.bb
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "47b42c232034734d66e5f093025843a5d8cc4b2357c011085a2fd04ef0
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/libsoup-${PV}"
 
-inherit autotools gettext pkgconfig upstream-version-is-even gobject-introspection
+inherit autotools gettext pkgconfig upstream-version-is-even gobject-introspection gtk-doc
 
 # libsoup-gnome is entirely deprecated and just stubs in 2.42 onwards. Disable by default.
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""