diff --git a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/net-snmp/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/net-snmp/default.nix
index 30317d25cff7..9e3ebc3795d8 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/net-snmp/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/net-snmp/default.nix
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       "--with-persistent-directory=/var/lib/net-snmp"
     ];
 
-  buildInputs = [ autoreconfHook file openssl perl unzip ];
+  buildInputs = [ autoreconfHook file perl unzip ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ openssl ];
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;