diff --git a/packages/x11/data/xkeyboard-config/meta b/packages/x11/data/xkeyboard-config/meta
index afa50180c0..1e14d403bd 100644
--- a/packages/x11/data/xkeyboard-config/meta
+++ b/packages/x11/data/xkeyboard-config/meta
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ PKG_LICENSE="OSS"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.X.org"
 PKG_URL="http://people.freedesktop.org/~svu/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
 PKG_DEPENDS=""
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain util-macros xkbcomp"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain util-macros xkbcomp libiconv"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="x11/data"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="xkeyboard-config: X keyboard extension data files"