diff --git a/package/nodejs/Config.in b/package/nodejs/Config.in
index c5ec792ab9..329d270762 100644
--- a/package/nodejs/Config.in
+++ b/package/nodejs/Config.in
@@ -8,17 +8,20 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_NODEJS
 	depends on !BR2_ARM_CPU_ARMV4
 	# uses fork()
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
+	# uses dlopen(). On ARMv5, we could technically support static
+	# linking, but that's too much of a corner case to support it.
+	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_ZLIB
 	help
 	  Event-driven I/O server-side JavaScript environment based on V8.
 
 	  http://nodejs.org/
 
-comment "nodejs needs a toolchain w/ C++, threads"
+comment "nodejs needs a toolchain w/ C++, dynamic library, threads"
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
 	depends on BR2_arm || BR2_i386 || BR2_x86_64 || BR2_mipsel
 	depends on !BR2_ARM_CPU_ARMV4
-	depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
+	depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || BR2_STATIC_LIBS || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
 
 if BR2_PACKAGE_NODEJS