diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 88e4976..c24d4c0 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -4101,7 +4101,7 @@ fi
 # Check whether --enable-static was given.
 if test ${enable_static+y}
 then :
-  enableval=$enable_static; static_build="yes"
+  enableval=$enable_static; static_build="$enableval"
 
 else $as_nop
   static_build="no"
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 5b7e997..2d043bf 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ AC_CHECK_TOOL([STRIP], [strip])
 AC_ARG_ENABLE([static],
     [AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-static],
         [Build curl-impersonate statically with libcurl-impersonate])],
-    [AC_SUBST([static_build], ["yes"])],
+    [AC_SUBST([static_build], ["$enableval"])],
     [AC_SUBST([static_build], ["no"])])
 
 # Let the user optionally specify the path to zlib.