diff --git a/icu4c/source/config/mh-hpux-acc b/icu4c/source/config/mh-hpux-acc
index 8fbdad4f0f7..cade48559a5 100644
--- a/icu4c/source/config/mh-hpux-acc
+++ b/icu4c/source/config/mh-hpux-acc
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 ## Copyright (c) 1999-2000, International Business Machines Corporation and
 ## others. All Rights Reserved.
 ##
-## $Id: mh-hpux-acc,v 1.19 2000/10/18 19:02:06 yves Exp $
+## $Id: mh-hpux-acc,v 1.20 2000/10/19 20:29:42 yves Exp $
 
 ## Commands to generate dependency files
 GEN_DEPS.c=	:
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ LD_RPATH_PRE=
 LDLIBRARYPATH_ENVVAR = SHLIB_PATH
 
 ## Compiler switch to embed a library name
-LD_SONAME = +h $(MIDDLE_SO_TARGET)
+LD_SONAME = -Wl,+h -Wl,$(MIDDLE_SO_TARGET)
 
 ## Versioned target for a shared library.
 FINAL_SO_TARGET = $(basename $(SO_TARGET)).$(SO_TARGET_VERSION)
diff --git a/icu4c/source/config/mh-hpux-cc b/icu4c/source/config/mh-hpux-cc
index e646562867b..4995658567c 100644
--- a/icu4c/source/config/mh-hpux-cc
+++ b/icu4c/source/config/mh-hpux-cc
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 ## Copyright (c) 1999-2000, International Business Machines Corporation and
 ## others. All Rights Reserved.
 ##
-## $Id: mh-hpux-cc,v 1.23 2000/10/18 19:02:06 yves Exp $
+## $Id: mh-hpux-cc,v 1.24 2000/10/19 20:29:42 yves Exp $
 
 
 ## This causes source/tools/pkgdata generated makefiles  to create and link
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ LD_RPATH_PRE=
 LDLIBRARYPATH_ENVVAR = SHLIB_PATH
 
 ## Compiler switch to embed a library name
-LD_SONAME = +h $(MIDDLE_SO_TARGET)
+LD_SONAME = -Wl,+h $-Wl,(MIDDLE_SO_TARGET)
 
 ## Versioned target for a shared library.
 FINAL_SO_TARGET = $(basename $(SO_TARGET)).$(SO_TARGET_VERSION)