diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/icu/icu_70.1.bb b/meta/recipes-support/icu/icu_70.1.bb
index 0988ae8b8e..ae985bca4f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/icu/icu_70.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/icu/icu_70.1.bb
@@ -123,6 +123,14 @@ EXTRA_OECONF:append:libc-musl = " ac_cv_func_strtod_l=no"
 PACKAGECONFIG ?= ""
 PACKAGECONFIG[make-icudata] = ",,,"
 
+# Add dependencies to make_icudata
+do_make_icudata[depends] = "autoconf-native:do_populate_sysroot automake-native:do_populate_sysroot"
+python() {
+    if not (bb.data.inherits_class("native", d) or
+            bb.utils.to_boolean(d.getVar('CCACHE_DISABLE'))):
+        d.appendVarFlag('do_make_icudata', 'depends', ' ccache-native:do_populate_sysroot')
+}
+
 do_make_icudata:class-target () {
     ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'make-icudata', '', 'exit 0', d)}
     cd ${S}