diff --git a/package/libarchive/0001-Revert-Only-add-iconv-to-the-.pc-file-if-needed-1825.patch b/package/libarchive/0001-Revert-Only-add-iconv-to-the-.pc-file-if-needed-1825.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a4dd7dad5c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/libarchive/0001-Revert-Only-add-iconv-to-the-.pc-file-if-needed-1825.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+From 3879afd473a256173cc626e16293f3fe8875f2d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
+Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2024 09:53:23 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Revert "Only add "iconv" to the .pc file if needed (#1825)"
+
+This reverts commit 1f35c466aaa9444335a1b854b0b7223b0d2346c2.
+
+Upstream: no dedicated PR for this revert but there is already plenty of PRs/issues to fix iconv build ...
+Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
+---
+ configure.ac | 4 +---
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
+index 93f7af94..204a4e69 100644
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -434,9 +434,7 @@ if test "x$with_iconv" != "xno"; then
+     AC_CHECK_HEADERS([localcharset.h])
+     am_save_LIBS="$LIBS"
+     LIBS="${LIBS} ${LIBICONV}"
+-    if test -n "$LIBICONV"; then
+-      LIBSREQUIRED="$LIBSREQUIRED${LIBSREQUIRED:+ }iconv"
+-    fi
++    LIBSREQUIRED="$LIBSREQUIRED${LIBSREQUIRED:+ }iconv"
+     AC_CHECK_FUNCS([locale_charset])
+     LIBS="${am_save_LIBS}"
+     if test "x$ac_cv_func_locale_charset" != "xyes"; then
+-- 
+2.43.0
+
diff --git a/package/libarchive/0002-autotools-do-not-add-iconv-for-Requires.private.patch b/package/libarchive/0002-autotools-do-not-add-iconv-for-Requires.private.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..338dad46e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/libarchive/0002-autotools-do-not-add-iconv-for-Requires.private.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+From 619c1be8d38ff79622db8f66f3b02832795315f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de>
+Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 09:04:39 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] autotools: do not add iconv for Requires.private
+
+There is no pkgconfig file for iconv, thus things break with this
+change. Let's drop iconv from Requires.private.
+
+Fixes: a83f3d32 ("autotools: Fix static linking when openssl is enabled in windows")
+Upstream: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1817/commits/619c1be8d38ff79622db8f66f3b02832795315f9
+Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
+---
+ configure.ac | 1 -
+ 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
+index 99bff20d1..f245d0c55 100644
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -378,7 +378,6 @@ if test "x$with_iconv" != "xno"; then
+     AC_CHECK_HEADERS([localcharset.h])
+     am_save_LIBS="$LIBS"
+     LIBS="${LIBS} ${LIBICONV}"
+-    LIBSREQUIRED="$LIBSREQUIRED${LIBSREQUIRED:+ }iconv"
+     AC_CHECK_FUNCS([locale_charset])
+     LIBS="${am_save_LIBS}"
+     if test "x$ac_cv_func_locale_charset" != "xyes"; then
diff --git a/package/libarchive/libarchive.mk b/package/libarchive/libarchive.mk
index 2db36156b8..136f7a9c09 100644
--- a/package/libarchive/libarchive.mk
+++ b/package/libarchive/libarchive.mk
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ LIBARCHIVE_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 LIBARCHIVE_LICENSE = BSD-2-Clause, BSD-3-Clause, CC0-1.0, OpenSSL, Apache-2.0
 LIBARCHIVE_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
 LIBARCHIVE_CPE_ID_VENDOR = libarchive
+# We're patching configure.ac
+LIBARCHIVE_AUTORECONF = YES
+# needed for autoreconf
+LIBARCHIVE_DEPENDENCIES += host-pkgconf
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBARCHIVE_BSDTAR),y)
 ifeq ($(BR2_STATIC_LIBS),y)