diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib-2.0_2.36.4.bb b/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib-2.0_2.36.4.bb
index 3ba49b6da9..0918bf59b0 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib-2.0_2.36.4.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib-2.0_2.36.4.bb
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest_append_libc-glibc = "\
             eglibc-charmap-invariant \
             eglibc-localedata-translit-cjk-variants \
            "
+EXTRA_OECONF_append_class-target_libc-uclibc = " --with-libiconv=gnu"
 
 do_configure_prepend() {
 	sed -i -e '1s,#!.*,#!${USRBINPATH}/env python,' ${S}/gio/gdbus-2.0/codegen/gdbus-codegen.in