Compiling GNUCash under Debian

[Stephen Brown]

Hi All
In a UXTerm shell i did

apt-get --compile gnucash
cd gnucash-1.6.4
make install

This binary runs well under ddd

When compiling from git I get configure errors 
(cannot find icu)

Am I right in saying that Debian has not got the latest packages to 
compile the source code in git master?

Yours Sincerely

Stephen Brown