diff --git a/pkgs/stdenv/darwin/make-bootstrap-tools.nix b/pkgs/stdenv/darwin/make-bootstrap-tools.nix
index 46ba25f8603b3b1..711cab7092009dc 100644
--- a/pkgs/stdenv/darwin/make-bootstrap-tools.nix
+++ b/pkgs/stdenv/darwin/make-bootstrap-tools.nix
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ in rec {
   cctools_ = darwin.cctools;
 
   # Avoid debugging larger changes for now.
-  bzip2_ = bzip2.override (args: { linkStatic = true; });
+  bzip2_ = bzip2.override (args: { enableStatic = true; disableShared = true; });
 
   # Avoid messing with libkrb5 and libnghttp2.
   curl_ = curlMinimal.override (args: { gssSupport = false; http2Support = false; });
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/compression/bzip2/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/compression/bzip2/default.nix
index be456cf59442777..8a73d2f4c2acb0d 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/compression/bzip2/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/compression/bzip2/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 { lib, stdenv, fetchurl
-, linkStatic ? with stdenv.hostPlatform; isStatic || isCygwin
+, enableStatic ? with stdenv.hostPlatform; isStatic || isCygwin
+, disableShared ? false
 , autoreconfHook
 , testers
 }:
@@ -48,7 +49,10 @@ in {
   outputs = [ "bin" "dev" "out" "man" ];
 
   configureFlags =
-    lib.optionals linkStatic [ "--enable-static" "--disable-shared" ];
+    lib.optional enableStatic "--enable-static" ++
+    lib.optional disableShared "--disable-shared";
+
+  dontDisableStatic = if enableStatic then true else null; # null to not cause rebuild vs historic versions that didn't have the attribute at all
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;