diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/hdf5/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/hdf5/package.py
index 4cc2ecbd65..d6c53c92a6 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/hdf5/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/hdf5/package.py
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ class Hdf5(AutotoolsPackage):
             description='Produce position-independent code (for shared libs)')
 
     depends_on('mpi', when='+mpi')
+    depends_on('numactl', when='+mpi+fortran')
     depends_on('szip', when='+szip')
     depends_on('zlib@1.1.2:')