diff --git a/sys-libs/zlib-ng/zlib_ng-2.0.6.recipe b/sys-libs/zlib-ng/zlib_ng-2.0.6.recipe
index 0bc9aba87..6a73207e2 100644
--- a/sys-libs/zlib-ng/zlib_ng-2.0.6.recipe
+++ b/sys-libs/zlib-ng/zlib_ng-2.0.6.recipe
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="Zlib replacement with optimizations for next generation systems"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng"
 COPYRIGHT="1995-2013 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler"
 LICENSE="Zlib"
-REVISION="1"
+REVISION="2"
 SOURCE_URI="https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng/archive/refs/tags/$portVersion.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="8258b75a72303b661a238047cb348203d88d9dddf85d480ed885f375916fcab6"
 SOURCE_DIR="zlib-ng-$portVersion"
@@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ INSTALL()
 {
 	make -C build install
 
+	# remove static library
+	rm $libDir/libz-ng.a
+
 	prepareInstalledDevelLib libz-ng
 	fixPkgconfig