diff --git a/package/icu/icu-workaround-toolchain-bugs.patch b/package/icu/icu-workaround-toolchain-bugs.patch
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+++ b/package/icu/icu-workaround-toolchain-bugs.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+Workaround toolchain bugs
+
+Many of ARM Sourcery CodeBench toolchain have a bug when compiling
+icu's translit.cpp source file. The bug is trigerred when there is a
+combination of "-W -Wall" and "-Os", and causes an internal compiler
+error. The bug has been reported to Mentor Graphics.
+
+Even though it is clearly a toolchain bug, having a workaround for it
+is trivial in this case. So it will avoid our users falling into this
+internal compiler error, and allow our autobuilders to test more
+packages using this Sourcery CodeBench toolchain.qq
+
+Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
+
+Index: b/source/configure
+===================================================================
+--- a/source/configure
++++ b/source/configure
+@@ -4320,7 +4320,7 @@
+                 echo "# Note: We are not using '-ansi' with HP/UX GCC because int64_t broke, see <http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/8493>"
+                 CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wall -pedantic -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -Wno-long-long";;
+             *)
+-                CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wall -ansi -pedantic -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -Wno-long-long";;
++                CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -ansi -pedantic -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -Wno-long-long";;
+             esac
+         else
+             case "${host}" in
+@@ -4333,7 +4333,7 @@
+         fi
+         if test "$GXX" = yes
+         then
+-            CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -W -Wall -ansi -pedantic -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wno-long-long"
++            CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -ansi -pedantic -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wno-long-long"
+             case "${host}" in
+             *-*-solaris*)
+                 CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -D__STDC__=0";;