diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 8b225af07e5..b174fa2ac34 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -243,6 +243,10 @@ option(WITH_RAYOPTIMIZATION	"Enable use of SIMD (SSE) optimizations for the rayt
 if(UNIX AND NOT APPLE)
 	option(WITH_INSTALL_PORTABLE "Install redistributeable runtime, otherwise install into CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX" ON)
 	option(WITH_STATIC_LIBS "Try to link with static libraries, as much as possible, to make blender more portable across distributions" OFF)
+	if(WITH_STATIC_LIBS)
+		option(WITH_BOOST_ICU "Boost uses ICU library (required for linking with static Boost built with libicu)." OFF)
+		mark_as_advanced(WITH_BOOST_ICU)
+	endif()
 endif()
 option(WITH_PYTHON_INSTALL       "Copy system python into the blender install folder" ON)
 option(WITH_PYTHON_INSTALL_NUMPY "Copy system numpy into the blender install folder"  ON)
@@ -683,7 +687,7 @@ if(UNIX AND NOT APPLE)
 				list(APPEND __boost_packages locale)
 			endif()
 			find_package(Boost 1.48 COMPONENTS ${__boost_packages})
-			if(Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS AND Boost_USE_ICU)
+			if(Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS AND WITH_BOOST_ICU)
 				find_package(IcuLinux)
 			endif()
 			mark_as_advanced(Boost_DIR)  # why doesnt boost do this?
diff --git a/build_files/build_environment/install_deps.sh b/build_files/build_environment/install_deps.sh
index 5815158f4f5..5175eb9a4f6 100755
--- a/build_files/build_environment/install_deps.sh
+++ b/build_files/build_environment/install_deps.sh
@@ -1970,7 +1970,7 @@ print_info() {
     INFO "  $_2"
     _buildargs="$_buildargs $_1 $_2"
   elif $ALL_STATIC; then
-    _1="-D Boost_USE_ICU=ON"
+    _1="-D WITH_BOOST_ICU=ON"
     INFO "  $_1"
     _buildargs="$_buildargs $_1"
   fi