diff --git a/icu.spec b/icu.spec
index 0508586..8262703 100644
--- a/icu.spec
+++ b/icu.spec
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ URL:            http://www.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/
 Source0:        ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tgz
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root
 
-BuildRequires:  doxygen, prelink
+BuildRequires:  doxygen
+Patch0: icu-3.4-gnustack.patch
 
 %description
 The International Components for Unicode (ICU) libraries provide
@@ -48,6 +49,7 @@ Group:          Documentation
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n %{name}
+%patch0 -p1 -b .gnustack
 
 %build
 cd source
@@ -62,7 +64,6 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT source/__docs
 make -C source install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 make -C source install-doc docdir=__docs
 chmod +x $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/*.so.*
-execstack -c $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/libicudata.so.*.*
 
 %check || :
 make -C source check