diff --git a/app-arch/brotli/brotli-1.0.9.recipe b/app-arch/brotli/brotli-1.0.9.recipe
index b10d7e275..5c443e9c5 100644
--- a/app-arch/brotli/brotli-1.0.9.recipe
+++ b/app-arch/brotli/brotli-1.0.9.recipe
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ methods. It is similar in speed with deflate but offers more dense compression."
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/google/brotli"
 COPYRIGHT="2009, 2010, 2013-2018 Brotli Authors"
 LICENSE="MIT"
-REVISION="2"
+REVISION="3"
 SOURCE_URI="https://github.com/google/brotli/archive/v$portVersion.tar.gz"
 # Testdata missing in Tarball, see https://github.com/google/brotli/issues/850
 # For tests 1/ use the git URL
@@ -130,7 +130,10 @@ INSTALL()
 	install -t "$manDir/man1" docs/brotli.1
 	install -t "$manDir/man3" docs/*.3
 
-	prepareInstalledDevelLibs libbrotli{common,dec,enc}{,-static}
+	# remove static libraries
+	rm $libDir/*.a
+
+	prepareInstalledDevelLibs libbrotli{common,dec,enc}
 	fixPkgconfig
 
 	packageEntries devel \
diff --git a/dev-libs/libpcre/libpcre-8.45.recipe b/dev-libs/libpcre/libpcre-8.45.recipe
index caab86481..54a521582 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libpcre/libpcre-8.45.recipe
+++ b/dev-libs/libpcre/libpcre-8.45.recipe
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ COPYRIGHT="1997-2018 University of Cambridge
 	2007-2012, Google Inc. All rights reserved."
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.pcre.org/"
 LICENSE="PCRE"
-REVISION="2"
+REVISION="3"
 SOURCE_URI="https://downloads.sourceforge.net/pcre//pcre-8.45.tar.bz2"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="4dae6fdcd2bb0bb6c37b5f97c33c2be954da743985369cddac3546e3218bffb8"
 SOURCE_DIR="pcre-$portVersion"
@@ -110,7 +110,8 @@ BUILD()
 		--enable-unicode-properties \
 		--with-pic \
 		$jitOption \
-		--enable-shared
+		--enable-shared \
+		--disable-static
 	make $jobArgs
 }
 
diff --git a/dev-libs/libpcre2/libpcre2-10.39.recipe b/dev-libs/libpcre2/libpcre2-10.39.recipe
index e6a78495b..4387e976b 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libpcre2/libpcre2-10.39.recipe
+++ b/dev-libs/libpcre2/libpcre2-10.39.recipe
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ API."
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.pcre.org/"
 COPYRIGHT="1997-2017 University of Cambridge"
 LICENSE="PCRE"
-REVISION="1"
+REVISION="2"
 SOURCE_URI="https://github.com/PhilipHazel/pcre2/releases/download/pcre2-$portVersion/pcre2-$portVersion.tar.bz2"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="0f03caf57f81d9ff362ac28cd389c055ec2bf0678d277349a1a4bee00ad6d440"
 SOURCE_DIR="pcre2-$portVersion"
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ BUILD()
 		--enable-pcre2grep-libz \
 		--enable-pcre2grep-libbz2 \
 		--enable-pcre2test-libedit \
+		--disable-static
 		#--enable-pcre2test-libreadline \
 		#--enable-debug
 	make $jobArgs
diff --git a/dev-libs/openssl/openssl-1.1.1s.recipe b/dev-libs/openssl/openssl-1.1.1s.recipe
index 077c0ac48..57e2bc723 100644
--- a/dev-libs/openssl/openssl-1.1.1s.recipe
+++ b/dev-libs/openssl/openssl-1.1.1s.recipe
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ HOMEPAGE="https://www.openssl.org/"
 COPYRIGHT="1995-1998 Eric Young
 	1998-2022 The OpenSSL Project"
 LICENSE="OpenSSL"
-REVISION="1"
+REVISION="2"
 SOURCE_URI="https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-$portVersion.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="c5ac01e760ee6ff0dab61d6b2bbd30146724d063eb322180c6f18a6f74e4b6aa"
 SOURCE_DIR="openssl-$portVersion"
@@ -119,6 +119,9 @@ INSTALL()
 	mkdir -p $(dirname $includeDir)
 	mv $prefix/include $includeDir
 
+	# remove static libraries
+	rm $libDir/*.a
+
 	# prepare develop/lib
 	prepareInstalledDevelLibs libcrypto libssl
 	fixPkgconfig
diff --git a/net-misc/curl/curl-7.85.0.recipe b/net-misc/curl/curl-7.85.0.recipe
index df4c2d6f1..7936c303e 100644
--- a/net-misc/curl/curl-7.85.0.recipe
+++ b/net-misc/curl/curl-7.85.0.recipe
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ busload of other useful tricks."
 HOMEPAGE="https://curl.haxx.se/"
 COPYRIGHT="1996-2022 Daniel Stenberg"
 LICENSE="Curl"
-REVISION="1"
+REVISION="2"
 SOURCE_URI="https://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-$portVersion.tar.bz2"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="21a7e83628ee96164ac2b36ff6bf99d467c7b0b621c1f7e317d8f0d96011539c"
 ADDITIONAL_FILES="curl.rdef"
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ BUILD()
 	CPPFLAGS=-D_BSD_SOURCE runConfigure ./configure \
 		--enable-ipv6 --enable-manual \
 		--with-openssl --with-libssh2 \
+		--disable-static \
 		--with-ca-bundle="$certsDir/CARootCertificates.pem"
 	make $jobArgs
 }
diff --git a/sys-devel/gettext/gettext-0.19.8.1.recipe b/sys-devel/gettext/gettext-0.19.8.1.recipe
index 90f8c94b6..a6ec71505 100644
--- a/sys-devel/gettext/gettext-0.19.8.1.recipe
+++ b/sys-devel/gettext/gettext-0.19.8.1.recipe
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/"
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/"
 COPYRIGHT="1998-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc."
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v3"
-REVISION="7"
+REVISION="8"
 SOURCE_URI="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gettext/gettext-$portVersion.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="ff942af0e438ced4a8b0ea4b0b6e0d6d657157c5e2364de57baa279c1c125c43"
 PATCHES="gettext-$portVersion.patchset"
@@ -103,8 +103,11 @@ BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
 BUILD()
 {
 	runConfigure ./configure \
-		--disable-java --without-git \
-		--disable-rpath --disable-maintainer-mode
+		--disable-java \
+		--without-git \
+		--disable-rpath \
+		--disable-static \
+		--disable-maintainer-mode
 	make $jobArgs AUTOCONF=: AUTOMAKE=: AUTOHEADER=: ACLOCAL=:
 }
 
@@ -112,8 +115,8 @@ INSTALL()
 {
 	make install AUTOCONF=: AUTOMAKE=: AUTOHEADER=: ACLOCAL=:
 
-	# remove libtool files
-	rm -f $libDir/lib*.la
+	# remove libtool files & static libraries
+	rm -f $libDir/lib*.la $libDir/lib*.a
 
 	rm $libDir/charset.alias
 
diff --git a/sys-libs/libedit/libedit-20210910_3.1.recipe b/sys-libs/libedit/libedit-20210910_3.1.recipe
index 8c138d936..0da142ea6 100644
--- a/sys-libs/libedit/libedit-20210910_3.1.recipe
+++ b/sys-libs/libedit/libedit-20210910_3.1.recipe
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ found in GNU Readline."
 HOMEPAGE="http://thrysoee.dk/editline/"
 COPYRIGHT="1992-2021 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc."
 LICENSE="BSD (3-clause)"
-REVISION="2"
+REVISION="3"
 SOURCE_URI="http://thrysoee.dk/editline/libedit-${portVersion/_/-}.tar.gz"
 SOURCE_DIR="libedit-${portVersion/_/-}"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="6792a6a992050762edcca28ff3318cdb7de37dccf7bc30db59fcd7017eed13c5"
@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ BUILD()
 {
 	autoreconf --force --install
 	runConfigure ./configure --enable-examples=no \
-		--enable-widec
+		--enable-widec \
+		--disable-static
 	make $jobArgs
 }