diff --git a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
index 358f5a42b..885d1537c 100644
--- a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
+++ b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ whole rxr-tree.
 *) 2003-08-12 (2.0.0-camp - 2.0.0-rc1)
 
  - fixed Create-SrcTar to not create a CVS dir and not archive .svn/CVS files
+ - fixed zlib (to build libz.a)
 
 *) 2003-08-09 (2.0.0-camp - 2.0.0-rc1)
 
diff --git a/package/base/zlib/zlib.conf b/package/base/zlib/zlib.conf
index dd34c3823..ccf9cd033 100644
--- a/package/base/zlib/zlib.conf
+++ b/package/base/zlib/zlib.conf
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ zlib_pm() {
 	cp algorithm.txt $docdir
 }
 
-var_append confopt " " "--shared"
+#var_append confopt " " "--shared"
 var_insert CC_WRAPPER_INSERT " " "-fPIC"
-#hook_add premake 3 "unset AR"
+hook_add preconf 3 "unset AR"
 hook_add postmake 3 "zlib_pm"
 
 # optimized code