diff --git a/rpm/icu-config.sh b/rpm/icu-config.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+OOO_ARCH=$(uname -m)
+case $OOO_ARCH in
+	x86_64 | s390x | ppc64 | sparc64 | aarch64)
+		bits=64
+		;;
+	* )
+		bits=32
+		;;
+esac
+exec icu-config-$bits "$@"
diff --git a/rpm/icu.spec b/rpm/icu.spec
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+Name:      icu
+Version:   52.1
+Release:   10%{?dist}
+Summary:   International Components for Unicode
+Group:     Development/Tools
+License:   MIT and UCD and Public Domain
+URL:       http://www.icu-project.org/
+Source0:   %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+Source1:   icu-config.sh
+BuildRequires: autoconf, python
+Requires: lib%{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
+
+%description
+Tools and utilities for developing with icu.
+
+%package -n lib%{name}
+Summary: International Components for Unicode - libraries
+Group:   System Environment/Libraries
+
+%description -n lib%{name}
+The International Components for Unicode (ICU) libraries provide
+robust and full-featured Unicode services on a wide variety of
+platforms. ICU supports the most current version of the Unicode
+standard, and they provide support for supplementary Unicode
+characters (needed for GB 18030 repertoire support).
+As computing environments become more heterogeneous, software
+portability becomes more important. ICU lets you produce the same
+results across all the various platforms you support, without
+sacrificing performance. It offers great flexibility to extend and
+customize the supplied services.
+
+%package  -n lib%{name}-devel
+Summary:  Development files for International Components for Unicode
+Group:    Development/Libraries
+Requires: lib%{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
+Requires: pkgconfig
+
+%description -n lib%{name}-devel
+Includes and definitions for developing with icu.
+
+%package -n lib%{name}-doc
+Summary: Documentation for International Components for Unicode
+Group:   Documentation
+BuildArch: noarch
+
+%description -n lib%{name}-doc
+%{summary}.
+
+%{!?endian: %global endian %(%{__python} -c "import sys;print (0 if sys.byteorder=='big' else 1)")}
+# " this line just fixes syntax highlighting for vim that is confused by the above and continues literal
+
+%prep
+%setup -q -n %{name}-%{version}/%{name}
+
+%build
+cd source
+autoconf
+CFLAGS='%optflags -fno-strict-aliasing'
+CXXFLAGS='%optflags -fno-strict-aliasing'
+# Endian: BE=0 LE=1
+%if ! 0%{?endian}
+CPPFLAGS='-DU_IS_BIG_ENDIAN=1'
+%endif
+#rhbz856594 do not use --disable-renaming or cope with the mess
+%configure --with-data-packaging=library --disable-samples
+#rhbz#225896
+sed -i 's|-nodefaultlibs -nostdlib||' config/mh-linux
+#rhbz#681941
+sed -i 's|^LIBS =.*|LIBS = -L../lib -licuuc -lpthread -lm|' i18n/Makefile
+sed -i 's|^LIBS =.*|LIBS = -nostdlib -L../lib -licuuc -licui18n -lc -lgcc|' io/Makefile
+sed -i 's|^LIBS =.*|LIBS = -nostdlib -L../lib -licuuc -lc|' layout/Makefile
+sed -i 's|^LIBS =.*|LIBS = -nostdlib -L../lib -licuuc -licule -lc|' layoutex/Makefile
+sed -i 's|^LIBS =.*|LIBS = -nostdlib -L../../lib -licutu -licuuc -lc|' tools/ctestfw/Makefile
+sed -i 's|^LIBS =.*|LIBS = -nostdlib -L../../lib -licui18n -licuuc -lpthread -lc|' tools/toolutil/Makefile
+#rhbz#813484
+sed -i 's| \$(docfilesdir)/installdox||' Makefile
+# There is no source/doc/html/search/ directory
+sed -i '/^\s\+\$(INSTALL_DATA) \$(docsrchfiles) \$(DESTDIR)\$(docdir)\/\$(docsubsrchdir)\s*$/d' Makefile
+# rhbz#856594 The configure --disable-renaming and possibly other options
+# result in icu/source/uconfig.h.prepend being created, include that content in
+# icu/source/common/unicode/uconfig.h to propagate to consumer packages.
+test -f uconfig.h.prepend && sed -e '/^#define __UCONFIG_H__/ r uconfig.h.prepend' -i common/unicode/uconfig.h
+
+make %{?_smp_mflags}
+#make %{?_smp_mflags} doc
+
+%install
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT source/__docs
+make %{?_smp_mflags} -C source install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+make %{?_smp_mflags} -C source install-doc docdir=__docs
+chmod +x $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/*.so.*
+(
+ cd $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_bindir}
+ mv icu-config icu-config-%{__isa_bits}
+)
+install -p -m755 -D %{SOURCE2} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_bindir}/icu-config
+
+%check
+# test to ensure that -j(X>1) didn't "break" man pages. b.f.u #2357
+if grep -q @VERSION@ source/tools/*/*.8 source/tools/*/*.1 source/config/*.1; then
+    exit 1
+fi
+make %{?_smp_mflags} -C source check
+
+%post -n lib%{name} -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%postun -n lib%{name} -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%{_bindir}/derb
+%{_bindir}/genbrk
+%{_bindir}/gencfu
+%{_bindir}/gencnval
+%{_bindir}/gendict
+%{_bindir}/genrb
+%{_bindir}/makeconv
+%{_bindir}/pkgdata
+%{_bindir}/uconv
+%{_sbindir}/*
+%{_mandir}/man1/derb.1*
+%{_mandir}/man1/gencfu.1*
+%{_mandir}/man1/gencnval.1*
+%{_mandir}/man1/gendict.1*
+%{_mandir}/man1/genrb.1*
+%{_mandir}/man1/genbrk.1*
+%{_mandir}/man1/makeconv.1*
+%{_mandir}/man1/pkgdata.1*
+%{_mandir}/man1/uconv.1*
+%{_mandir}/man8/*.8*
+
+%files -n lib%{name}
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%doc license.html readme.html
+%{_libdir}/*.so.*
+
+%files -n lib%{name}-devel
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%{_bindir}/%{name}-config*
+%{_bindir}/icuinfo
+%{_mandir}/man1/%{name}-config.1*
+%{_mandir}/man1/icuinfo.1*
+%{_includedir}/layout
+%{_includedir}/unicode
+%{_libdir}/*.so
+%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/*.pc
+%{_libdir}/%{name}
+%dir %{_datadir}/%{name}
+%dir %{_datadir}/%{name}/%{version}
+%{_datadir}/%{name}/%{version}/install-sh
+%{_datadir}/%{name}/%{version}/mkinstalldirs
+%{_datadir}/%{name}/%{version}/config
+%doc %{_datadir}/%{name}/%{version}/license.html
+
+%files -n lib%{name}-doc
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%doc license.html readme.html
+%doc source/__docs/%{name}/html/*