diff --git a/icu4c/source/config/icu-config-bottom b/icu4c/source/config/icu-config-bottom
index 847ea396bc8..8679fc86730 100644
--- a/icu4c/source/config/icu-config-bottom
+++ b/icu4c/source/config/icu-config-bottom
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ## -*-sh-*-
-## BEGIN of icu-config-bottom. $Revision: 1.1 $
+## BEGIN of icu-config-bottom. $Revision: 1.2 $
 ## Copyright (c) 2002, International Business Machines Corporation and
 ## others. All Rights Reserved.
 
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ ICUUC_FILE=${libdir}/${ICULIBS_COMMON_LIB_NAME}
 #  esac
     
 #  echo ENABLE RPATH $ENABLE_RPATH and RPATHLDFLAGS=${RPATH_LDFLAGS}
-if [ "x$PKGDATA_MODE" == "x" ]; then
+if [ "x$PKGDATA_MODE" = "x" ]; then
     PKGDATA_MODE=dll
 fi
 
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ do
 	    ;;
 
 	--ldflags)
-	    echo $ICULIBS $LIBS
+	    echo $LDFLAGS $ICULIBS $LIBS 
 # $RPATH_LDFLAGS
 	    ;;
 
diff --git a/icu4c/source/config/make2sh.sed b/icu4c/source/config/make2sh.sed
index 1da77004c5a..e21233dd09e 100644
--- a/icu4c/source/config/make2sh.sed
+++ b/icu4c/source/config/make2sh.sed
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # Copyright (C) 1999-2002, International Business Machines  Corporation and others.  All Rights Reserved.
+s%^\([a-zA-Z\.-]*\)[ 	]*+=%\1=$(\1) %
 s%^[A-Z]*_SO_TARG*%## &%
 s%$(\([^\)]*\))%${\1}%g
 s%^	%#M#	%
@@ -7,7 +8,7 @@ s@^\([a-zA-Z][-.a-zA-Z_0-9-]*\)[	 ]*=[ 	]*\(.*\)@\1="\2"@
 s@^\([a-zA-Z][-a-zA-Z_0-9-]*\)\.\([a-zA-Z_0-9-]*\)[	 ]*=[ 	]*\(.*\)@\1_\2=\3@
 s@^\([a-zA-Z][-a-zA-Z_0-9-]*\)\-\([a-zA-Z_0-9-]*\)[	 ]*=[ 	]*\(.*\)@\1_\2=\3@
 s@^\(prefix\)=\(.*\)@default_\1=\2\
-if [ "x${\1}" == "x" ]; then \1="$default_\1"; fi@
+if [ "x${\1}" = "x" ]; then \1="$default_\1"; fi@
 s@^\(ENABLE_RPATH\)=\(.*\)@default_\1=\2\
-if [ "x${\1}" == "x" ]; then \1="$default_\1"; fi@
+if [ "x${\1}" = "x" ]; then \1="$default_\1"; fi@
 s%^#SH#[ ]*%%