--- gentoo/dev-libs/boost/boost-1.77.0-r2.ebuild.orig
+++ gentoo/dev-libs/boost/boost-1.77.0-r2.ebuild
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 LICENSE="Boost-1.0"
 SLOT="0/${PV}" # ${PV} instead ${MAJOR_V} due to bug 486122
 KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris ~x86-winnt"
-IUSE="bzip2 context debug doc icu lzma +nls mpi numpy python tools zlib zstd"
+IUSE="bzip2 context debug doc icu lzma +nls mpi numpy python static-libs tools zlib zstd"
 REQUIRED_USE="python? ( ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE} )"
 # the tests will never fail because these are not intended as sanity
 # tests at all. They are more a way for upstream to check their own code
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@
 		# building with threading=single is currently not possible
 		# https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7105
 		threading=multi
-		link=shared
+		link=$(usex static-libs shared,static shared)
 		# this seems to be the only way to disable compression algorithms
 		# https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_70_0/libs/iostreams/doc/installation.html#boost-build
 		-sNO_BZIP2=$(usex bzip2 0 1)