diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/fuse/fuse3_3.16.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/fuse/fuse3_3.16.2.bb
index 47b070557d..e75c88210c 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/fuse/fuse3_3.16.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/fuse/fuse3_3.16.2.bb
@@ -29,8 +29,9 @@ SRC_URI += " \
     file://run-ptest \
     file://fuse3.conf \
 "
-
+#python3-compile for filecmp module
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += " \
+    python3-compile \
     python3-pytest \
     python3-looseversion \
     bash \