The attached patch adds support for the USE flag static to sys-apps/fileutils. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 12944 [details, diff] USE=static support for sys-apps/fileutils
Fileutils is going to be deprecated in favor of coreutils very shortly so I will not be including this patch. I haven't looked at coreutils yet, but if it has support for this and it isn't in the ebuild, feel free to submit a patch to bugzilla for that ebuild, thanks.