diff --git a/recipes-qt/qt5/qt5.inc b/recipes-qt/qt5/qt5.inc
index e2a1662121..dfc1c7674b 100644
--- a/recipes-qt/qt5/qt5.inc
+++ b/recipes-qt/qt5/qt5.inc
@@ -3,10 +3,6 @@
 
 inherit qmake5
 
-# Qt5 is dependent on icu for localization
-ICU = "icu "
-ICU_powerpc = "pango"
-
 PACKAGECONFIG_OPENSSL ?= "openssl"
 
 QT_MODULE ?= "${BPN}"
diff --git a/recipes-qt/qt5/qtbase.inc b/recipes-qt/qt5/qtbase.inc
index 378f229b40..4fe6bd5e6f 100644
--- a/recipes-qt/qt5/qtbase.inc
+++ b/recipes-qt/qt5/qtbase.inc
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[linuxfb] = "-linuxfb,-no-linuxfb"
 PACKAGECONFIG[mitshm] = "-mitshm,-no-mitshm,mitshm"
 PACKAGECONFIG[kms] = "-kms,-no-kms,kms"
 # needed for qtdeclarative (qtdeclarative.do_configure fails to find quick module without)
-PACKAGECONFIG[icu] = "-icu,-no-icu,${ICU}"
+PACKAGECONFIG[icu] = "-icu,-no-icu,icu"
 PACKAGECONFIG[udev] = "-libudev,-no-libudev,udev"
 # use -openssl-linked here to ensure that RDEPENDS for libcrypto and libssl are detected
 PACKAGECONFIG[openssl] = "-openssl-linked,-no-openssl,openssl"
diff --git a/recipes-qt/qt5/qtwebkit.inc b/recipes-qt/qt5/qtwebkit.inc
index aea9dad089..c35504e79c 100644
--- a/recipes-qt/qt5/qtwebkit.inc
+++ b/recipes-qt/qt5/qtwebkit.inc
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://Source/WebCore/rendering/RenderApplet.h;endline=22;md
                     file://Source/WebKit/gtk/webkit/webkit.h;endline=21;md5=b4fbe9f4a944f1d071dba1d2c76b3351 \
                     file://Source/JavaScriptCore/parser/Parser.h;endline=21;md5=bd69f72183a7af673863f057576e21ee"
 
-DEPENDS += "qtdeclarative qtlocation qtsensors ${ICU} ruby-native sqlite3 glib-2.0 gstreamer1.0 gstreamer1.0-plugins-base libxslt"
+DEPENDS += "qtdeclarative qtlocation qtsensors icu ruby-native sqlite3 glib-2.0 gstreamer1.0 gstreamer1.0-plugins-base libxslt"
 
 # qtwebkit gets terribly big when linking with all debug info, disable by default
 QTWEBKIT_DEBUG = "QMAKE_CFLAGS+=-g0 QMAKE_CXXFLAGS+=-g0"