--- bc-1.06-r5.ebuild	2004-06-25 01:06:42.000000000 +0200
+++ bc-1.06-r6.ebuild	2004-11-06 18:35:05.743049984 +0100
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 LICENSE="GPL-2 LGPL-2.1"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="x86 ppc sparc mips alpha arm hppa mips amd64 ia64 ppc64 s390"
-IUSE="readline"
+IUSE="readline static"
 
 RDEPEND="readline? ( >=sys-libs/readline-4.1
 	>=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2 )"
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
 		amd64) replace-flags -O? -O0;;
 	esac
 
+	use static && append-ldflags -static && export LDFLAGS
 	local myconf=""
 	use readline && myconf="--with-readline"
 	econf ${myconf} || die