diff --git a/packages/devel/libiconv/build b/packages/devel/libiconv/build
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..1f894eb4b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/devel/libiconv/build
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+. config/options $1
+
+cd $PKG_BUILD
+  mkdir -p $SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/share/aclocal
+    cp srcm4/*.m4 $SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/share/aclocal
diff --git a/packages/devel/libiconv/meta b/packages/devel/libiconv/meta
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/devel/libiconv/meta
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+PKG_NAME="libiconv"
+PKG_VERSION="1.13.1"
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
+PKG_SITE="http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/"
+PKG_URL="http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
+PKG_DEPENDS=""
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="devel"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="libiconv: Library converting between character encodings"
+PKG_LONGDESC="This library provides an iconv() implementation, for use on systems which don't have one, or whose implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode. This library is a drop-in soution for systems lacking a iconv() implementation in the C library."
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+
+PKG_AUTORECONF="no"