diff --git a/libmodulemd.spec b/libmodulemd.spec
index 8e4995e..4740f7f 100644
--- a/libmodulemd.spec
+++ b/libmodulemd.spec
@@ -9,7 +9,10 @@ URL:            https://github.com/fedora-modularity/libmodulemd
 Source0:        https://github.com/fedora-modularity/libmodulemd/releases/download/libmodulemd-%{version}/modulemd-%{version}.tar.xz
 
 Patch9000:      libmodulemd-disable-valgrind-test-for-build.patch
-BuildRequires:  meson pkgconfig gcc python3-gobject-base valgrind gobject-introspection-devel libxslt
+BuildRequires:  meson pkgconfig gcc python3-gobject-base gobject-introspection-devel libxslt
+%ifarch %{valgrind_arches}
+BuildRequires: valgrind
+%endif
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(gobject-2.0) pkgconfig(gobject-introspection-1.0) pkgconfig(yaml-0.1) pkgconfig(gtk-doc)
 
 %description