diff --git a/sklearn/linear_model/meson.build b/sklearn/linear_model/meson.build
index 53d44d45b0a2d..04fde5a16dde8 100644
--- a/sklearn/linear_model/meson.build
+++ b/sklearn/linear_model/meson.build
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ foreach name: name_list
     # TODO in principle this should go in py.exension_module below. This is
     # temporary work-around for dependency issue with .pyx.tp files. For more
     # details, see https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/13212
-    depends: [linear_model_cython_tree, utils_cython_tree],
+    depends: [linear_model_cython_tree, utils_cython_tree, _loss_cython_tree],
   )
   py.extension_module(
     name,