diff --git a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
index 117061f12..d8a7499b7 100644
--- a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
+++ b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
    get deleted during a Cleanup ...) (#46)
  - changed apache's default datadir from /opt/apache/share to
    /var/opt/apache/ (#40)
+ - fixed zlib to finally build both a static and dynamic version
 
 *) 2003-08-18 (2.0.0-camp - 2.0.0-rc1)
 
diff --git a/package/base/zlib/zlib.conf b/package/base/zlib/zlib.conf
index ccf9cd033..24c47e8b3 100644
--- a/package/base/zlib/zlib.conf
+++ b/package/base/zlib/zlib.conf
@@ -21,11 +21,16 @@
 # --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
 
 zlib_pm() {
-	cp zlib.3 $root/$prefix/share/man/man3/
-	cp algorithm.txt $docdir
+	# craete a static version
+	make libz.a
+	cp -v libz.a $root/$prefix/lib/
+	[ ! -d $root/$prefix/share/man/man3 ] && \
+		mkdir -p $root/$prefix/share/man/man3
+	cp -v zlib.3 $root/$prefix/share/man/man3/
+	cp -v algorithm.txt $docdir
 }
 
-#var_append confopt " " "--shared"
+var_insert confopt " " "--shared"
 var_insert CC_WRAPPER_INSERT " " "-fPIC"
 hook_add preconf 3 "unset AR"
 hook_add postmake 3 "zlib_pm"