diff --git a/3rdparty/ext_xml/CMakeLists.txt b/3rdparty/ext_xml/CMakeLists.txt
index 5a3c15522..7dd26887a 100644
--- a/3rdparty/ext_xml/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/3rdparty/ext_xml/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 SET(PREFIX_ext_xml "${EXTPREFIX}" )
 
 ExternalProject_Add(
   ext_xml
   DOWNLOAD_DIR ${EXTERNALS_DOWNLOAD_DIR}
   URL ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxslt/libxml2-2.9.7.tar.gz
   URL_MD5 896608641a08b465098a40ddf51cefba
 
   INSTALL_DIR ${PREFIX_ext_xml}
-  CONFIGURE_COMMAND ./configure LIBS="-liconv" --prefix=${PREFIX_ext_xml} --without-python
+  CONFIGURE_COMMAND ./configure --prefix=${PREFIX_ext_xml} --without-python
   BUILD_COMMAND make
   INSTALL_COMMAND make install
 
   UPDATE_COMMAND ""
   BUILD_IN_SOURCE 1
 )
diff --git a/packaging/linux/appimage/build-deps.sh b/packaging/linux/appimage/build-deps.sh
index 7d7592c8c..77477e9e2 100755
--- a/packaging/linux/appimage/build-deps.sh
+++ b/packaging/linux/appimage/build-deps.sh
@@ -1,76 +1,78 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 #
 # Build all KMyMoney's dependencies on Ubuntu 14.04.
 #
 # Prerequisites: cmake git build-essential libxcb-keysyms1-dev plus all deps for Qt5
 #
 
 # Halt on errors and be verbose about what we are doing
 set -e
 set -x
 
 # Read in our parameters
 export BUILD_PREFIX=$1
 export KMYMONEY_SOURCES=$2
 
 # qjsonparser, used to add metadata to the plugins needs to work in a en_US.UTF-8 environment.
 # That's not always the case, so make sure it is
 export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
 export LANG=en_us.UTF-8
 
 # We want to use $prefix/deps/usr/ for all our dependencies
 export DEPS_INSTALL_PREFIX=$BUILD_PREFIX/deps/usr/
 export DOWNLOADS_DIR=$BUILD_PREFIX/downloads/
 
 # Setup variables needed to help everything find what we build
 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$DEPS_INSTALL_PREFIX/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
 export PATH=$DEPS_INSTALL_PREFIX/bin:$PATH
 export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$DEPS_INSTALL_PREFIX/share/pkgconfig:$DEPS_INSTALL_PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
 export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$DEPS_INSTALL_PREFIX:$CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
 
 # A kmymoney build layout looks like this:
 # kmymoney/ -- the source directory
 # downloads/ -- downloads of the dependencies from files.kde.org
 # deps-build/ -- build directory for the dependencies
 # deps/ -- the location for the built dependencies
 # build/ -- build directory for kmymoney itself
 # kmymoney.appdir/ -- install directory for kmymoney and the dependencies
 
 # Make sure our downloads directory exists
 if [ ! -d $DOWNLOADS_DIR ] ; then
     mkdir -p $DOWNLOADS_DIR
 fi
 
 # Make sure our build directory exists
 if [ ! -d $BUILD_PREFIX/deps-build/ ] ; then
     mkdir -p $BUILD_PREFIX/deps-build/
 fi
 
 # The 3rdparty dependency handling in KMyMoney also requires the install directory to be pre-created
 if [ ! -d $DEPS_INSTALL_PREFIX ] ; then
     mkdir -p $DEPS_INSTALL_PREFIX
 fi
 
 # Switch to our build directory as we're basically ready to start building...
 cd $BUILD_PREFIX/deps-build/
 
 # Configure the dependencies for building
 cmake $KMYMONEY_SOURCES/3rdparty -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$DEPS_INSTALL_PREFIX -DINSTALL_ROOT=$DEPS_INSTALL_PREFIX -DEXTERNALS_DOWNLOAD_DIR=$DOWNLOADS_DIR
 
 # Now start building everything we need, in the appropriate order
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_iconv
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_gettext
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_zlib
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_boost
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_png
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_xml
+xmlCommand="cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_xml"
+cmake -E env LIBS="-liconv" ${xmlCommand}
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_xslt
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_lzma
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_fontconfig
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_freetype
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_qt
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_frameworks
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_gmp
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_alkimia
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_kdiagram
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_icu