diff --git a/contrib/src/yaml-cpp/rules.mak b/contrib/src/yaml-cpp/rules.mak
index 4b9fcf8378d3664540b66cadfdb9b88a5eabfcc0..8ea84c3e5e5881e8f1660b58d6651d87ca44fdbe 100644
--- a/contrib/src/yaml-cpp/rules.mak
+++ b/contrib/src/yaml-cpp/rules.mak
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ YAML_CPP_URL := https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp/archive/$(YAML_CPP_VERSION).t
 
 PKGS += yaml-cpp
 
-ifeq ($(call need_pkg,'yaml-cpp'),)
+ifeq ($(call need_pkg,'yaml-cpp >= 0.5.3'),)
 PKGS_FOUND += yaml-cpp
 endif