diff --git a/app-text/hoedown/hoedown-3.0.7.recipe b/app-text/hoedown/hoedown-3.0.7.recipe
index 834f54493..05428f81e 100644
--- a/app-text/hoedown/hoedown-3.0.7.recipe
+++ b/app-text/hoedown/hoedown-3.0.7.recipe
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="Hoedown is a revived fork of Sundown, the Markdown parser"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/hoedown/hoedown"
 COPYRIGHT="2014 Xaier Mendez, Devin Torres, and Hoedown authors"
 LICENSE="ISC"
-REVISION="1"
+REVISION="2"
 SOURCE_URI="https://github.com/hoedown/hoedown/archive/refs/tags/$portVersion.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="01b6021b1ec329b70687c0d240b12edcaf09c4aa28423ddf344d2bd9056ba920"
 
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ INSTALL()
 	sed -i 's,INCLUDEDIR = $(PREFIX)/include',"INCLUDEDIR = $includeDir", Makefile
 	make DESTDIR=$installDestDir install
 
+	# remove static library
+	rm $libDir/*.a
+
 	prepareInstalledDevelLib libhoedown
 
 	packageEntries devel \