There is no good reason to use different names for static and shared
libraries

$OpenBSD: patch-source_icudefs_mk_in,v 1.7 2011/09/12 06:45:53 ajacoutot Exp $
--- source/icudefs.mk.in.orig	Tue Jul 19 23:19:38 2011
+++ source/icudefs.mk.in	Mon Sep 12 08:21:30 2011
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ STATIC_PREFIX_WHEN_USED = 
 endif
 
 # Static library prefix and file extension
-STATIC_PREFIX = s
+STATIC_PREFIX =
 LIBSICU = $(LIBPREFIX)$(STATIC_PREFIX)$(ICUPREFIX)
 A = a
 SOBJ = $(SO)
