--- gdb-6.0.ebuild.org	2005-01-11 22:38:16.000000000 +0100
+++ gdb-6.0.ebuild	2005-02-08 20:55:32.000000000 +0100
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 LICENSE="GPL-2 LGPL-2"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 -hppa ia64 mips ppc ppc64 sparc x86"
-IUSE="nls test"
+IUSE="nls test static"
 
 RDEPEND=">=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2-r2"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
@@ -31,7 +31,11 @@
 src_compile() {
 	replace-flags -O? -O2
 	econf $(use_enable nls) || die
-	make || die
+	if use static; then
+		make LDFLAGS="-static" || die
+	else
+		make || die
+	fi
 }
 
 src_install() {