diff --git a/icu4c/source/config/mh-solaris-gcc b/icu4c/source/config/mh-solaris-gcc
index 04e7bdcb660..8330bd4c190 100644
--- a/icu4c/source/config/mh-solaris-gcc
+++ b/icu4c/source/config/mh-solaris-gcc
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 ## Copyright (c) 1999-2000, International Business Machines Corporation and
 ## others. All Rights Reserved.
 ##
-## $Id: mh-solaris-gcc,v 1.28 2003/07/24 17:42:44 grhoten-oss Exp $
+## $Id: mh-solaris-gcc,v 1.29 2003/08/04 17:48:34 grhoten-oss Exp $
 
 ## Flags for position independent code
 SHAREDLIBCFLAGS = -fPIC
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ SHAREDLIBCPPFLAGS = -DPIC
 GEN_DEPS.c= 	$(CC) -E -MM $(DEFS) $(CPPFLAGS)
 GEN_DEPS.cc=	$(CXX) -E -MM $(DEFS) $(CPPFLAGS)
 
+## Commands to make a shared library
+SHLIB.c=	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -G
+SHLIB.cc=	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -G
+
 ## Compiler switch to embed a runtime search path
 LD_RPATH=	-R
 LD_RPATH_PRE=