diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a25deba727..0a8ffdadcc 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@
 /third_party/gaeunit
 /third_party/gflags/src
 /third_party/google-visualization-python
+/third_party/icu
 /third_party/instrumented_libraries
 /third_party/ijar
 /third_party/jsoncpp
diff --git a/setup_links.py b/setup_links.py
index d04b3bc2c2..58588a968b 100755
--- a/setup_links.py
+++ b/setup_links.py
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ if 'android' in target_os:
     'third_party/android_tools',
     'third_party/appurify-python',
     'third_party/ashmem',
+    'third_party/icu',
     'third_party/ijar',
     'third_party/jsr-305',
     'third_party/junit',