diff --git a/app-arch/xz_utils/xz_utils-5.2.5.recipe b/app-arch/xz_utils/xz_utils-5.2.5.recipe
index 14365c9ec..4f9bacd8b 100644
--- a/app-arch/xz_utils/xz_utils-5.2.5.recipe
+++ b/app-arch/xz_utils/xz_utils-5.2.5.recipe
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ COPYRIGHT="2005-2018 Lasse Collin"
 LICENSE="GNU LGPL v2.1
 	GNU GPL v2
 	GNU GPL v3"
-REVISION="1"
+REVISION="2"
 SOURCE_URI="https://downloads.sourceforge.net/lzmautils/xz-$portVersion.tar.bz2"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="5117f930900b341493827d63aa910ff5e011e0b994197c3b71c08a20228a42df"
 SOURCE_DIR="xz-$portVersion"
@@ -87,7 +87,9 @@ defineDebugInfoPackage xz_utils$secondaryArchSuffix \
 BUILD()
 {
 	touch po/t-cs.gmo
-	runConfigure --omit-dirs binDir ./configure --bindir=$commandBinDir
+	runConfigure --omit-dirs binDir ./configure \
+		--bindir=$commandBinDir \
+		--disable-static
 	make $jobArgs
 }