diff --git a/libIDL.spec b/libIDL.spec
index d849624..a8a4466 100644
--- a/libIDL.spec
+++ b/libIDL.spec
@@ -43,14 +43,14 @@ programs that use libIDL.
 
 
 %build
-%configure
+%configure --disable-static
 %make_build
 
 
 %install
 %make_install
 rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_infodir}/dir
-rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/*a
+rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/*.la
 
 
 %ldconfig_scriptlets
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/*a
 - Use HTTPS URLs
 - Make glib2-devel dependency from -devel subpackage arch-specific
 - Use %%autosetup, %%make_build, and %%make_install macros
+- Rather than removing the static library, skip building it with --disable-static
 
 * Tue Jan 26 2021 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.8.14-23
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_34_Mass_Rebuild