diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 3bd9e7a342..b2d87bed5e 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -3167,6 +3167,7 @@ deinterlace_vaapi_filter_deps="vaapi"
 delogo_filter_deps="gpl"
 deshake_filter_select="pixelutils"
 drawtext_filter_deps="libfreetype"
+drawtext_filter_suggest="libfontconfig"
 elbg_filter_deps="avcodec"
 eq_filter_deps="gpl"
 fftfilt_filter_deps="avcodec"