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+################################################################################
+#      This file is part of LibreELEC - https://libreelec.tv
+#      Copyright (C) 2016 Team LibreELEC
+#
+#  LibreELEC is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#  the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
+#  (at your option) any later version.
+#
+#  LibreELEC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+#  GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#  along with LibreELEC.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+################################################################################
+
+PKG_NAME="icu"
+PKG_VERSION="57.1"
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="Custom"
+PKG_SITE="http://www.icu-project.org"
+PKG_URL="http://download.icu-project.org/files/${PKG_NAME}4c/${PKG_VERSION}/${PKG_NAME}4c-${PKG_VERSION//./_}-src.tgz"
+PKG_SOURCE_DIR="icu"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain icu:host"
+PKG_SECTION="textproc"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="International Components for Unicode library"
+PKG_LONGDESC="International Components for Unicode library"
+
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+PKG_AUTORECONF="no"
+
+PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_HOST="--enable-static --disable-shared"
+
+PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="--enable-static \
+                           --disable-shared \
+                           --with-cross-build=$ROOT/$PKG_BUILD/.$HOST_NAME"
+
+PKG_CONFIGURE_SCRIPT="source/configure"
+
+post_makeinstall_target() {
+  rm -rf $INSTALL
+}