diff --git a/kdelibs3.spec b/kdelibs3.spec
index 3ae892d..7eeb568 100644
--- a/kdelibs3.spec
+++ b/kdelibs3.spec
@@ -186,7 +186,11 @@ BuildRequires: krb5-devel
 BuildRequires: openldap-devel
 BuildRequires: db4-devel
 BuildRequires: alsa-lib-devel
+%if 0%{?fedora} > 25 || 0%{?rhel} > 7
+BuildRequires: pkgconf-pkg-config
+%else
 BuildRequires: pkgconfig
+%endif
 BuildRequires: glibc-kernheaders
 BuildRequires: libutempter-devel
 BuildRequires: findutils
@@ -626,6 +630,7 @@ touch --no-create %{_datadir}/icons/crystalsvg 2> /dev/null || :
 * Sun Jan 22 2017 Kevin Kofler <Kevin@tigcc.ticalc.org> - 3.5.10-79
 - use DrKonqi from Plasma 5 rather than from kde-runtime 4
 - build against compat-openssl10 for now (F26+)
+- BuildRequires: pkgconf-pkg-config instead of pkgconfig on F26+
 
 * Sat Dec 03 2016 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> - 3.5.10-78
 - rebuild (jasper)