atk doesn't have a static USE flag, but configure supports it (libtool). (Also.. making static gtk 2.6.2 applications doesn't link correctly yet, but that is not related to this). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: USE=static emerge atk Actual Results: atk.so and atk.la Expected Results: atk.so, atk.la and atk.a
This is fixed for atk-1.8.0-r1. Thanks for your report.