diff --git a/dev-libs/popt/popt-1.16.recipe b/dev-libs/popt/popt-1.16.recipe
index 6576113f8..c446956ca 100644
--- a/dev-libs/popt/popt-1.16.recipe
+++ b/dev-libs/popt/popt-1.16.recipe
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ arrays"
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/8.1/general/popt.html"
 COPYRIGHT="1998-2010 Red Hat, Inc."
 LICENSE="MIT"
-REVISION="5"
+REVISION="6"
 SOURCE_URI="ftp://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/popt/popt-1.16.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="e728ed296fe9f069a0e005003c3d6b2dde3d9cad453422a10d6558616d304cc8"
 PATCHES="popt-1.16.patchset"
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ defineDebugInfoPackage popt$secondaryArchSuffix \
 BUILD()
 {
 	autoreconf -vfi
-	runConfigure ./configure
+	runConfigure ./configure --disable-static
 	make $jobArgs
 }