diff --git a/srcpkgs/icu/template b/srcpkgs/icu/template
index a9a5db6c964..1eda1a29393 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/icu/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/icu/template
@@ -2,32 +2,20 @@
 pkgname=icu
 version=49.1.2
 _distver="49_1_2"
-revision=3
+revision=4
 wrksrc=icu
 build_wrksrc=source
+build_style=gnu-configure
 short_desc="Robust and full-featured Unicode services"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://www.icu-project.org/"
 license="ICU License /usr/share/licenses/icu/license.html"
 distfiles="http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/${version}/icu4c-${_distver}-src.tgz"
 checksum=cce83cc88a2ff79d65c05426facbf30530bbe13a1cfda04b3ab81b55414cf5a3
-long_desc="
- The International Components for Unicode(ICU) is a C and C++ library that
- provides robust and full-featured Unicode support on a wide variety of
- platforms. The library provides:
 
- - Calendar support
- - Character set conversions
- - Collation (language-sensitive)
- - Date and time formatting
- - Locales (140+ supported)
- - Message catalogs (resources)
- - Message formatting
- - Normalization
- - Number and currency formatting
- - Time zones
- - Transliteration
- - Word, line and sentence breaks"
+if [ "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
+	configure_args+=" --with-cross-build=${XBPS_BUILDDIR}/${wrksrc}/host-icu"
+fi
 
 pre_configure() {
 	if [ "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
@@ -45,25 +33,12 @@ pre_configure() {
 	fi
 }
 
-do_configure() {
-	if [ "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
-		_cross_args="--with-cross-build=${wrksrc}/host-icu"
-	fi	
-	./configure ${configure_args} ${_cross_args}
-}
-
-do_build() {
-	make ${makejobs}
-}
-
-do_install() {
-	make DESTDIR=${DESTDIR} install
-
+post_install() {
 	vinstall $wrksrc/license.html 644 usr/share/licenses/icu
 }
 
 icu-devel_package() {
-	depends="libstdc++-devel icu>=$version"
+	depends="libstdc++-devel icu-libs>=${version}_${revision}"
 	short_desc+=" - development files"
 	pkg_install() {
 		vmove usr/include
@@ -72,12 +47,13 @@ icu-devel_package() {
 		vmove usr/share/icu
 		vmove usr/bin/icu-config
 		vmove "usr/share/man/man1/icu-config*"
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
 	}
 }
 
 icu-libs_package() {
 	short_desc+=" - shared libs"
 	pkg_install() {
-		vmove "usr/lib/*.so*"
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so.*"
 	}
 }