diff --git a/builder/build.sh b/builder/build.sh
index 8505583..565a677 100755
--- a/builder/build.sh
+++ b/builder/build.sh
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ compile_r() {
   #
   # The INCLUDE_PCRE2_IN_R_3 environment variable can be set to include PCRE2
   # in R 3.x builds, for distributions where PCRE2 is always required.
-  # In Debian 11/Ubuntu 22, Pango now depends on PCRE2, so R 3.x will not be compiled with
+  # In Debian 11/Ubuntu 22/RHEL 9, Pango now depends on PCRE2, so R 3.x will not be compiled with
   # Pango support if the PCRE2 pkg-config file is missing.
   if [[ "${1}" =~ ^3 ]] && pkg-config --exists libpcre2-8 && [ -z "$INCLUDE_PCRE2_IN_R_3" ]; then
     mkdir -p /tmp/pcre2
diff --git a/builder/package.rhel-9 b/builder/package.rhel-9
index 064bacf..5144ba8 100644
--- a/builder/package.rhel-9
+++ b/builder/package.rhel-9
@@ -4,10 +4,11 @@ if [[ ! -d /tmp/output/${OS_IDENTIFIER} ]]; then
   mkdir -p "/tmp/output/${OS_IDENTIFIER}"
 fi
 
-# R 3.x requires PCRE1
-pcre_lib='pcre2-devel'
+# R 3.x requires PCRE1. On RHEL 9, R 3.x also requires PCRE2 for Pango support.
+pcre_libs='- pcre2-devel'
 if [[ "${R_VERSION}" =~ ^3 ]]; then
-  pcre_lib='pcre-devel'
+  pcre_libs='- pcre2-devel
+- pcre-devel'
 fi
 
 # Create post-install script required for OpenBLAS.
@@ -64,7 +65,7 @@ depends:
 - make
 - openblas-devel
 - pango
-- ${pcre_lib}
+${pcre_libs}
 - tcl
 - tk
 - unzip