diff --git a/app-text/mythes/mythes-1.2.4.recipe b/app-text/mythes/mythes-1.2.4.recipe
index 6fe9baa64..311fb2d53 100644
--- a/app-text/mythes/mythes-1.2.4.recipe
+++ b/app-text/mythes/mythes-1.2.4.recipe
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ recent WordNet data."
 HOMEPAGE="https://sourceforge.net/projects/hunspell/files/MyThes/1.2.4"
 COPYRIGHT="1994-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."
 LICENSE="BSD (2-clause)"
-REVISION="4"
+REVISION="5"
 SOURCE_URI="http://prdownloads.sf.net/hunspell/mythes-1.2.4.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="1e81f395d8c851c3e4e75b568e20fa2fa549354e75ab397f9de4b0e0790a305f"
 
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
 BUILD()
 {
 	runConfigure --omit-dirs binDir ./configure \
-		--bindir=$prefix/bin
+		--bindir=$prefix/bin --disable-static
 	make $jobArgs
 }
 
@@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ INSTALL()
 {
 	make install
 
+	# remove libtool file
+	rm $libDir/libmythes-1.2.la
+
 	prepareInstalledDevelLib \
 		libmythes-1.2
 	fixPkgconfig