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

$OpenBSD: patch-source_icudefs_mk_in,v 1.6 2011/06/14 10:12:48 ajacoutot Exp $
--- source/icudefs.mk.in.orig	Mon May 23 23:59:04 2011
+++ source/icudefs.mk.in	Tue Jun  7 14:42:16 2011
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ 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)
