diff --git a/usr/portage/app-editors/nano/nano-2.3.1-r2.ebuild b/app-editors/nano/nano-2.3.1-r2.ebuild
index abc28b3..0444954 100644
--- a/usr/portage/app-editors/nano/nano-2.3.1-r2.ebuild
+++ b/app-editors/nano/nano-2.3.1-r2.ebuild
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ HOMEPAGE="http://www.nano-editor.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nano-basics-g
 LICENSE="GPL-3"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86 ~ppc-aix ~amd64-fbsd ~sparc-fbsd ~x86-fbsd ~x64-freebsd ~x86-freebsd ~hppa-hpux ~ia64-hpux ~x86-interix ~amd64-linux ~arm-linux ~ia64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~m68k-mint ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
-IUSE="debug justify +magic minimal ncurses nls slang spell unicode"
+IUSE="debug justify +magic minimal ncurses nls slang spell unicode static"
 
 RDEPEND=">=sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r1[unicode?]
 	magic? ( sys-apps/file )
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ src_prepare() {
 
 src_configure() {
 	eval export ac_cv_{header_magic_h,lib_magic_magic_open}=$(usex magic)
+	use static && append-ldflags -static
 	econf \
 		--bindir="${EPREFIX}"/bin \
 		$(use_enable !minimal color) \