diff --git a/app-accessibility/flite/flite-2.2.recipe b/app-accessibility/flite/flite-2.2.recipe
index 565a6b00c..8a6daf2e4 100644
--- a/app-accessibility/flite/flite-2.2.recipe
+++ b/app-accessibility/flite/flite-2.2.recipe
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ COPYRIGHT="1986 University of Toronto
 # Although individually many files have different licenses, as a whole this
 # license covers all the files.
 LICENSE="Flite"
-REVISION="1"
+REVISION="2"
 SOURCE_URI="https://github.com/festvox/flite/archive/refs/tags/v$portVersion.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="ab1555fe5adc3f99f1d4a1a0eb1596d329fd6d74f1464a0097c81f53c0cf9e5c"
 SOURCE_DIR="flite-${portVersion}"
@@ -126,6 +126,10 @@ BUILD()
 INSTALL()
 {
 	make install
+
+	# remove static libraries
+	rm $libDir/*.a
+
 	prepareInstalledDevelLibs \
 		libflite \
 		libflite_cmu_grapheme_lang \