diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 0a8ffdadcc..a25deba727 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -94,7 +94,6 @@
 /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 b6a6ecc510..d04b3bc2c2 100755
--- a/setup_links.py
+++ b/setup_links.py
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ DIRECTORIES = [
   'third_party/colorama',
   'third_party/drmemory',
   'third_party/expat',
-  'third_party/icu',
   'third_party/instrumented_libraries',
   'third_party/jsoncpp',
   'third_party/libjpeg',