Thanks for the sugestions for compiling couchdb on an armhf machine. I "fixed" the icu4 problem by using the latest icu version (5.2 I think). However, after that I ran into a automake 1.11 problem (something about the doc directory). In the end I just installed couchdb 1.2.0 from the debian repo.
Will need to revisit this later. Greetings, Pieter.
