diff --git a/tests/common/CMakeLists.txt b/tests/common/CMakeLists.txt
index 76a2e852513..d9cca88841b 100644
--- a/tests/common/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/tests/common/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ target_link_libraries(
   pthread
   ${CPPUNIT_LIBRARIES}
   ${ZLIB_LIBRARY}
-  XrdCl)
+  XrdCl
+  XrdUtils)
 
 add_executable(text-runner TextRunner.cc PathProcessor.hh)
 target_link_libraries(text-runner dl ${CPPUNIT_LIBRARIES} pthread)