diff --git a/packages/textproc/xerces-c/build b/packages/textproc/xerces-c/build
index 35c28524f0..21970f407e 100755
--- a/packages/textproc/xerces-c/build
+++ b/packages/textproc/xerces-c/build
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
 # xerces_c fails to build with LTO support
   strip_lto
 
+export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -liconv"
+
 cd $PKG_BUILD
 ./configure --host=$TARGET_NAME \
             --build=$HOST_NAME \
@@ -44,7 +46,8 @@ cd $PKG_BUILD
             --enable-msgloader-inmemory \
             --disable-msgloader-icu \
             --enable-msgloader-iconv \
+            --disable-rpath \
+            --with-gnu-ld
 
 make
-
 $MAKEINSTALL
diff --git a/packages/textproc/xerces-c/meta b/packages/textproc/xerces-c/meta
index e4e9e8dac7..ddc3f4f3f9 100644
--- a/packages/textproc/xerces-c/meta
+++ b/packages/textproc/xerces-c/meta
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="APL"
 PKG_SITE="http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/"
 PKG_URL="http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/apache/dist/xerces/c/3/sources/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
-PKG_DEPENDS="curl"
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain curl"
+PKG_DEPENDS="libiconv curl"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain libiconv curl"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="textproc"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="xerces-c: A C++ XML parser"