diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/icu/files/larger-cmd-size.patch b/meta/recipes-support/icu/files/larger-cmd-size.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..74a84f17ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/icu/files/larger-cmd-size.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+Allocate a larger memory size for cmd
+
+The length of the command line can be longer than 1024 sometimes,
+which will cause a "Segmentation fault" error.
+
+Signed-off-by: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+---
+ tools/pkgdata/pkgdata.c |    2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/tools/pkgdata/pkgdata.c b/tools/pkgdata/pkgdata.c
+--- a/tools/pkgdata/pkgdata.c
++++ b/tools/pkgdata/pkgdata.c
+@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
+ /* POSIX - execute makefile */
+ static int executeMakefile(const UPKGOptions *o)
+ {
+-    char cmd[1024];
++    char cmd[2048];
+     /*char pwd[1024];*/
+     const char *make;
+     int rc;
+-- 
+1.7.10.2
+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/icu/icu-3.6.inc b/meta/recipes-support/icu/icu-3.6.inc
index d3391fea5d..d969caa0ae 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/icu/icu-3.6.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/icu/icu-3.6.inc
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ BASE_SRC_URI = "ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/3.6/icu4c-
            file://gccfix.patch \
            file://fix-parallel-build.patch \
            file://use-g++-for-linking.patch \
+           file://larger-cmd-size.patch \
            "
 SRC_URI = "${BASE_SRC_URI} \
            file://noldlibpath.patch \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/icu/icu_3.6.bb b/meta/recipes-support/icu/icu_3.6.bb
index d7be522c03..f941acf81f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/icu/icu_3.6.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/icu/icu_3.6.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 require icu-3.6.inc
 
-PR = "r8"
+PR = "r9"
 
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "6243f7a19e03e05403ce84e597510d4c"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "5135e8d69d6206d320515df7aeee7027711ab1aef9d8dbf29571a97a9746b041"