diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/icu/package.mk b/packages/addons/addon-depends/icu/package.mk
index 4d3c05ed16..c1acaa318a 100644
--- a/packages/addons/addon-depends/icu/package.mk
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/icu/package.mk
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain icu:host"
 PKG_SECTION="textproc"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="International Components for Unicode library"
 PKG_LONGDESC="International Components for Unicode library"
+PKG_BUILD_FLAGS="+pic"
 
 PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_HOST="--enable-static --disable-shared"