diff --git a/gnu/packages/image.scm b/gnu/packages/image.scm
index 3d32442904..31c78f84ef 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/image.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/image.scm
@@ -1236,7 +1236,8 @@ PNG, and performs PNG integrity checks and corrections.")
      `(("nasm" ,nasm)))
     (arguments
      '(#:test-target "test"
-       #:configure-flags (list "--with-build-date=1970-01-01")))
+       #:configure-flags (list "--with-build-date=1970-01-01"
+                               "--disable-static")))
     (home-page "https://libjpeg-turbo.org/")
     (synopsis "SIMD-accelerated JPEG image handling library")
     (description "libjpeg-turbo is a JPEG image codec that accelerates baseline