diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn/avoid_AM_PROG_MKDIR_P_warning_error_with_automake_1.12.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn/avoid_AM_PROG_MKDIR_P_warning_error_with_automake_1.12.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3476bb9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn/avoid_AM_PROG_MKDIR_P_warning_error_with_automake_1.12.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate 
+
+automake 1.12.x has deprecated AM_PROG_MKDIR_P , and throws a warning for that,
+and the warnings are treated as errors because of the -Werror parameter.
+
+These AM_PROG_MKDIR_P are coming from gettext, and the latest gettext code has not 
+eliminated these deprecated macros yet. So disable the treatment of warnings
+as errors until gettext is updated to remove the deprecated macros.
+
+Signed-Off-by: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>
+2012/07/10
+
+Index: libidn-1.24/configure.ac
+===================================================================
+--- libidn-1.24.orig/configure.ac
++++ libidn-1.24/configure.ac
+@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ AC_COPYRIGHT([Copyright (c) 2002-2011 Si
+ AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
+ AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
+ AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(config.h)
+-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.10 -Wall -Werror -Wno-override])
++AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.10 -Wall -Wno-override])
+ AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])
+ 
+ # Library code modified:                              REVISION++
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn/dont-depend-on-help2man.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn/dont-depend-on-help2man.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0863530
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn/dont-depend-on-help2man.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [disable feature]
+
+Signed-off-by: Marko Lindqvist <cazfi74@gmail.com>
+diff -Nurdd libidn-1.26/doc/Makefile.am libidn-1.26/doc/Makefile.am
+--- libidn-1.26/doc/Makefile.am	2012-09-18 11:25:45.000000000 +0300
++++ libidn-1.26/doc/Makefile.am	2013-02-08 07:41:24.591431462 +0200
+@@ -49,15 +49,9 @@
+
+ # Man pages.
+
+-dist_man_MANS = idn.1 $(gdoc_MANS)
++dist_man_MANS = $(gdoc_MANS)
+ MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = $(dist_man_MANS)
+
+-idn.1: $(top_srcdir)/src/idn.c $(top_srcdir)/src/idn.ggo \
+-		$(top_srcdir)/configure.ac
+-	$(HELP2MAN) \
+-		--name="Internationalized Domain Names command line tool" \
+-		--output=$@ $(top_builddir)/src/idn$(EXEEXT)
+-
+ # GDOC
+
+ GDOC_BIN = $(srcdir)/gdoc
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn/libidn_fix_for_automake-1.12.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn/libidn_fix_for_automake-1.12.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..20afd25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn/libidn_fix_for_automake-1.12.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+
+This patch fixes following issue with automake 1.12
+
+| automake: warnings are treated as errors
+| /srv/home/nitin/builds/build-gcc47/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/share/automake-1.12/am/ltlibrary.am: warning: 'libidn.la': linking libtool libraries using a non-POSIX
+| /srv/home/nitin/builds/build-gcc47/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/share/automake-1.12/am/ltlibrary.am: archiver requires 'AM_PROG_AR' in 'configure.ac'
+
+Signed-Off-By: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>
+2012/05/03
+
+Index: libidn-1.24/configure.ac
+===================================================================
+--- libidn-1.24.orig/configure.ac
++++ libidn-1.24/configure.ac
+@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ AC_SUBST(LT_CURRENT, 17)
+ AC_SUBST(LT_REVISION, 7)
+ AC_SUBST(LT_AGE, 6)
+ 
++# automake 1.12 seems to require this, but automake 1.11 doesn't recognize it
++m4_pattern_allow([AM_PROG_AR])
++AM_PROG_AR
++
+ AC_PROG_CC
+ gl_EARLY
+ lgl_EARLY
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn_0.6.14.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn_0.6.14.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4df1d08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn_0.6.14.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+SUMMARY = "Internationalized Domain Name support library"
+DESCRIPTION = "Implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode and IDNA specifications defined by the IETF Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) working group."
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/"
+SECTION = "libs"
+LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+ & GPLv2+"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a \
+                    file://COPYING.LIB;md5=a6f89e2100d9b6cdffcea4f398e37343 \
+                    file://lib/idna.h;beginline=6;endline=18;md5=1336e848ca7b8e25767c3c7e8fa38a89 \
+                    file://src/idn.c;beginline=6;endline=18;md5=56c89e359652a71cda128d75f0ffdac4"
+PR = "r1"
+
+inherit pkgconfig autotools gettext texinfo
+
+SRC_URI = "http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libidn/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "040f012a45feb56168853998bb87ad4d"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "98910c2ad664bdf4eed2c2fff88e24f8882636ec9d26669366ff03b469c05ae3"
+
+do_configure_prepend() {
+	# this version of libidn copies AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS from 
+	# autoconf CVS because atm the autoconf it uses is a bit old
+	# now with cross autotool, that macro is already there and this
+	# local definition causes circular dependency. Actually AC_GNU_SOURCE
+	# is identical to AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. So remove all local
+	# references to the latter here.
+	sed -i -e "/AC_REQUIRE(\[gl_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS/d" ${S}/lib/gl/m4/gnulib-comp.m4
+	rm -f ${S}/lib/gl/m4/extensions.m4
+}
+
+do_install_append() {
+	rm -rf ${D}${libdir}/Libidn.dll
+	rm -rf ${D}${datadir}/emacs
+}
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn_1.30.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn_1.30.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7234747
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn_1.30.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+SUMMARY = "Internationalized Domain Name support library"
+DESCRIPTION = "Implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode and IDNA specifications defined by the IETF Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) working group."
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/"
+SECTION = "libs"
+LICENSE = "(LGPLv2.1+ | LGPLv3) & GPLv3+"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=df4be47940a91ee69556f5f71eed4aec \
+                    file://COPYING.LESSERv2;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c \
+                    file://COPYING.LESSERv3;md5=e6a600fd5e1d9cbde2d983680233ad02 \
+                    file://COPYINGv2;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263 \
+                    file://COPYINGv3;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504 \
+                    file://lib/idna.h;endline=21;md5=7c0b3828d1b153663be9a04ad4f7975f \
+                    file://src/idn.c;endline=20;md5=f4235f2a2cb2b65786b2979fb3cf7fbf"
+
+inherit pkgconfig autotools gettext texinfo
+
+SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/libidn/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz \
+           file://libidn_fix_for_automake-1.12.patch \
+           file://avoid_AM_PROG_MKDIR_P_warning_error_with_automake_1.12.patch \
+           file://dont-depend-on-help2man.patch \
+"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "b17edc8551cd31cc5f14c82a9dabf58e"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "39b9fc94d74081c185757b12e0891ce5a22db55268e7d1bb24533ff4432eb053"
+
+# command tool is under GPLv3+, while libidn itself is under LGPLv2.1+ or LGPLv3
+# so package command into a separate package
+PACKAGES =+ "idn"
+FILES_idn = "${bindir}/*"
+
+EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-csharp"
+
+do_install_append() {
+	rm -rf ${D}${datadir}/emacs
+}