diff --git a/package/base/gcc3/parse-config b/package/base/gcc3/parse-config
index 6d92814b9..0f87dd5c2 100644
--- a/package/base/gcc3/parse-config
+++ b/package/base/gcc3/parse-config
@@ -99,6 +99,12 @@ esac
 
 var_append GCC_WRAPPER_APPEND " " "$ROCKCFG_C_FLAGS"
 
+# Compile (i.e. link) all bins statically
+#
+if [ "$ROCKCFG_STATIC" = 1 ]; then
+	var_insert GCC_WRAPPER_INSERT " " "-static"
+fi
+
 # Compile with no exceptions or rtti, gcc itself must support both
 #
 if [ "$ROCKCFG_LIMITCXX" = 1 ] && [[ $pkg != gcc* ]] ; then
diff --git a/scripts/config.in b/scripts/config.in
index a9406a759..265a74869 100644
--- a/scripts/config.in
+++ b/scripts/config.in
@@ -362,6 +362,7 @@ break packages!'
 		lazy	'Lazy optimisiation (for debugging binaries)'
 
 	bool 'Create binaries with debug symbols' ROCKCFG_DEBUG 0
+	bool 'Create statically linked binaries' ROCKCFG_STATIC 0
 
 	bool 'Disable exceptions and rtti in C++' ROCKCFG_LIMITCXX 0
 	bool 'Enable c-compiler multilib support' ROCKCFG_MULTILIB 0