To use a system ICU, pass in the following three flags to Configure:
--icudatadir=/usr/lib/icu/2.6.1 --icushared=' -licudata -licuuc ' --icuheaders=/usr/include
Though if you've a different version of ICU, you'll need to update the icudatadir parameter. (That ought not be needed, but... it is, at least it was with ICU 2.6.1 on Debian stable)
build from there and you should be OK. -- Dan
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