diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/libiconv/package.mk b/packages/addons/addon-depends/libiconv/package.mk
index cc05c6a9a6..c96c10fc33 100644
--- a/packages/addons/addon-depends/libiconv/package.mk
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/libiconv/package.mk
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain"
 PKG_SECTION="devel"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="Libiconv converts from one character encoding to another through Unicode conversion."
 PKG_LONGDESC="Libiconv converts from one character encoding to another through Unicode conversion."
+PKG_BUILD_FLAGS="+pic"
 
 PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="--host=$TARGET_NAME \
             --build=$HOST_NAME \