diff --git a/mdadm/.footprint b/mdadm/.footprint
index 65d25a0c4..4124ac3b5 100644
--- a/mdadm/.footprint
+++ b/mdadm/.footprint
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ drwxr-xr-x	root/root	lib/udev/rules.d/
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	lib/udev/rules.d/64-md-raid.rules
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	sbin/
 -rwxr-xr-x	root/root	sbin/mdadm
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	sbin/mdadm.static
 -rwxr-xr-x	root/root	sbin/mdmon
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/man/
diff --git a/mdadm/Pkgfile b/mdadm/Pkgfile
index 496e02248..85a55a128 100644
--- a/mdadm/Pkgfile
+++ b/mdadm/Pkgfile
@@ -4,12 +4,14 @@
 
 name=mdadm
 version=3.0
-release=1
+release=2
 source=(http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/$name/$name-$version.tar.gz
         $name-$version-vol_id.patch)
 
 build() {
     cd $name-$version
     patch -p1 -i $SRC/$name-$version-vol_id.patch
-    make CXFLAGS="$CFLAGS" DESTDIR=$PKG MANDIR=/usr/man install
+    make CXFLAGS="$CFLAGS" all mdadm.static
+    make DESTDIR=$PKG MANDIR=/usr/man install
+    install -m755 mdadm.static $PKG/sbin
 }