diff --git a/libraries/icu4c/README b/libraries/icu4c/README
index dd422fd1ed..003ad4c1ab 100644
--- a/libraries/icu4c/README
+++ b/libraries/icu4c/README
@@ -1,5 +1,2 @@
 The International Components for Unicode (ICU)libraries provide robust
 and full-featured Unicode services on a wide variety of platforms.
-
-If you need static libraries, you can pass STATIC=yes to the script to
-enable them.
diff --git a/libraries/icu4c/icu4c.SlackBuild b/libraries/icu4c/icu4c.SlackBuild
index 20a269304e..aaf2ca3e69 100644
--- a/libraries/icu4c/icu4c.SlackBuild
+++ b/libraries/icu4c/icu4c.SlackBuild
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 # ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=icu4c
-VERSION=4.0.1
+VERSION=4.2.1
 ARCH=${ARCH:-i486}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
@@ -33,10 +33,6 @@ TMP=${TMP:-/tmp/SBo}
 PKG=$TMP/package-$PRGNAM
 OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}
 
-# Pass STATIC=yes on command line when running this script if you do
-# want to build the static library(ies)
-STATIC=${STATIC:-no}
-
 if [ "$ARCH" = "i486" ]; then
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686"
   LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
@@ -48,12 +44,6 @@ elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
   LIBDIRSUFFIX="64"
 fi
 
-if [ "$STATIC" = 'no' ]; then
-  STATICOPT='dis'
-else
-  STATICOPT='en'
-fi
-
 set -e
 
 rm -rf $PKG
@@ -75,8 +65,9 @@ cd source/
   ./configure \
     --prefix=/usr \
     --libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
+    --mandir=/usr/man \
     --enable-shared \
-    --${STATICOPT}able-static \
+    --disable-static \
     --sysconfdir=/etc \
     --localstatedir=/var \
     --build=$ARCH-slackware-linux
@@ -101,4 +92,4 @@ mkdir -p $PKG/install
 cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
 
 cd $PKG
-/sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.tgz
+/sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
diff --git a/libraries/icu4c/icu4c.info b/libraries/icu4c/icu4c.info
index 0959fc8a43..1a28cbd9a3 100644
--- a/libraries/icu4c/icu4c.info
+++ b/libraries/icu4c/icu4c.info
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 PRGNAM="icu4c"
-VERSION="4.0.1"
+VERSION="4.2.1"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.icu-project.org/"
-DOWNLOAD="http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/4.0.1/icu4c-4_0_1-src.tgz"
-MD5SUM="2f6ecca935948f7db92d925d88d0d078"
-MAINTAINER="ppr:kut"
+DOWNLOAD="http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/4.2.1/icu4c-4_2_1-src.tgz"
+DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
+MD5SUM="e3738abd0d3ce1870dc1fd1f22bba5b1"
+MD5SUM_x86_64=""
+MAINTAINER="pprkut"
 EMAIL="pprkut@liwjatan.at"
 APPROVED="rworkman"