diff --git a/libs/apr-util/configure.gnu b/libs/apr-util/configure.gnu
index 525c42f37f..72f3dccb09 100644
--- a/libs/apr-util/configure.gnu
+++ b/libs/apr-util/configure.gnu
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 srcpath=$(dirname $0 2>/dev/null )  || srcpath="." 
-$srcpath/configure "$@" --with-apr=../apr --without-sqlite2 --without-sqlite3 --with-expat=builtin
+$srcpath/configure "$@" --with-apr=../apr --disable-shared --with-pic --without-sqlite2 --without-sqlite3 --with-expat=builtin