diff --git a/srcpkgs/libgda/template b/srcpkgs/libgda/template
index f22960309a3..1272b5c6aac 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libgda/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libgda/template
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ build_style=gnu-configure
 build_helper="gir"
 configure_args="--with-ui --with-gtksourceview --with-graphviz --enable-json
  --enable-system-sqlite --without-libsoup"
-hostmakedepends="automake pkg-config intltool itstool flex perl glib-devel recode"
+hostmakedepends="automake pkg-config intltool itstool flex perl glib-devel"
 makedepends="gtk+3-devel libxml2-devel libxslt-devel
  openssl-devel libgcrypt-devel sqlite-devel db-devel
  libsecret-devel gtksourceview-devel graphviz-devel
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ fi
 post_extract() {
 	for f in $(find ${wrksrc} -type f -exec file "{}" \; | grep "C source" | cut -d ':' -f1); do
 		echo "${f}"
-		recode ISO-8859-1..UTF-8 "${f}"
+		iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 "${f}" >"${f}+"
+		mv "${f}+" "${f}"
 	done
 	#Fix LibreSSL build error
 	vsed -e 's,defined(LIBRESSL,!defined(OPENSSL,' -i providers/sqlcipher/sqlite3.c