diff --git a/dev-libs/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-2.0.2.recipe b/dev-libs/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-2.0.2.recipe
index 569e2b005..c58635d50 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-2.0.2.recipe
+++ b/dev-libs/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-2.0.2.recipe
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ utilities for properly handling strings according to the Unicode standard."
 HOMEPAGE="https://libs.suckless.org/libgrapheme"
 COPYRIGHT="2022 Laslo Hunhold"
 LICENSE="ISC"
-REVISION="2"
+REVISION="3"
 SOURCE_URI="https://dl.suckless.org/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-$portVersion.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="a68bbddde76bd55ba5d64116ce5e42a13df045c81c0852de9ab60896aa143125"
 
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ INSTALL()
 	make LIBPREFIX=$libDir INCPREFIX=$includeDir \
 		MANPREFIX=$manDir LDCONFIG= install
 
+	# remove static library
+	rm $libDir/libgrapheme.a
+
 	prepareInstalledDevelLib libgrapheme
 
 	packageEntries devel \