diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/10/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/10/default.nix
index 4ff7c18ab80d..d00d428a6950 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/10/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/10/default.nix
@@ -8,12 +8,7 @@
 , profiledCompiler ? false
 , langJit ? false
 , staticCompiler ? false
-, # N.B. the defult is intentionally not from an `isStatic`. See
-  # https://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html - this is about target
-  # platform libraries not host platform ones unlike normal. But since
-  # we can't rebuild those without also rebuilding the compiler itself,
-  # we opt to always build everything unlike our usual policy.
-  enableShared ? true
+, enableShared ? !stdenv.targetPlatform.isStatic
 , enableLTO ? !stdenv.hostPlatform.isStatic
 , texinfo ? null
 , perl ? null # optional, for texi2pod (then pod2man)
@@ -266,7 +261,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation ({
   };
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
-  inherit enableMultilib;
+  inherit enableMultilib enableShared;
 
   inherit (stdenv) is64bit;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/11/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/11/default.nix
index b78ca339fb85..79e682e88c4e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/11/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/11/default.nix
@@ -8,12 +8,7 @@
 , profiledCompiler ? false
 , langJit ? false
 , staticCompiler ? false
-, # N.B. the defult is intentionally not from an `isStatic`. See
-  # https://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html - this is about target
-  # platform libraries not host platform ones unlike normal. But since
-  # we can't rebuild those without also rebuilding the compiler itself,
-  # we opt to always build everything unlike our usual policy.
-  enableShared ? true
+, enableShared ? !stdenv.targetPlatform.isStatic
 , enableLTO ? !stdenv.hostPlatform.isStatic
 , texinfo ? null
 , perl ? null # optional, for texi2pod (then pod2man)
@@ -269,7 +264,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation ({
   };
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
-  inherit enableMultilib;
+  inherit enableShared enableMultilib;
 
   inherit (stdenv) is64bit;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.8/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.8/default.nix
index bc7868cc4606..ef1a04635f9a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.8/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.8/default.nix
@@ -8,12 +8,7 @@
 , profiledCompiler ? false
 , langJit ? false
 , staticCompiler ? false
-, # N.B. the defult is intentionally not from an `isStatic`. See
-  # https://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html - this is about target
-  # platform libraries not host platform ones unlike normal. But since
-  # we can't rebuild those without also rebuilding the compiler itself,
-  # we opt to always build everything unlike our usual policy.
-  enableShared ? true
+, enableShared ? !stdenv.targetPlatform.isStatic
 , enableLTO ? !stdenv.hostPlatform.isStatic
 , texinfo ? null
 , perl ? null # optional, for texi2pod (then pod2man); required for Java
@@ -295,7 +290,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation ({
   };
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
-  inherit enableMultilib;
+  inherit enableShared enableMultilib;
 
   inherit (stdenv) is64bit;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.9/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.9/default.nix
index bb1a3dd7d636..289df07d0312 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.9/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.9/default.nix
@@ -8,12 +8,7 @@
 , profiledCompiler ? false
 , langJit ? false
 , staticCompiler ? false
-, # N.B. the defult is intentionally not from an `isStatic`. See
-  # https://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html - this is about target
-  # platform libraries not host platform ones unlike normal. But since
-  # we can't rebuild those without also rebuilding the compiler itself,
-  # we opt to always build everything unlike our usual policy.
-  enableShared ? true
+, enableShared ? !stdenv.targetPlatform.isStatic
 , enableLTO ? !stdenv.hostPlatform.isStatic
 , texinfo ? null
 , perl ? null # optional, for texi2pod (then pod2man); required for Java
@@ -311,7 +306,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation ({
   };
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
-  inherit enableMultilib;
+  inherit enableShared enableMultilib;
 
   inherit (stdenv) is64bit;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/6/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/6/default.nix
index 7548ec56c759..5191c3b461be 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/6/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/6/default.nix
@@ -9,12 +9,7 @@
 , profiledCompiler ? false
 , langJit ? false
 , staticCompiler ? false
-, # N.B. the defult is intentionally not from an `isStatic`. See
-  # https://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html - this is about target
-  # platform libraries not host platform ones unlike normal. But since
-  # we can't rebuild those without also rebuilding the compiler itself,
-  # we opt to always build everything unlike our usual policy.
-  enableShared ? true
+, enableShared ? !stdenv.targetPlatform.isStatic
 , enableLTO ? !stdenv.hostPlatform.isStatic
 , texinfo ? null
 , flex
@@ -325,7 +320,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation ({
   };
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
-  inherit enableMultilib;
+  inherit enableShared enableMultilib;
 
   inherit (stdenv) is64bit;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/7/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/7/default.nix
index 70bb5df255c4..937ccbb35103 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/7/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/7/default.nix
@@ -7,12 +7,7 @@
 , profiledCompiler ? false
 , langJit ? false
 , staticCompiler ? false
-, # N.B. the defult is intentionally not from an `isStatic`. See
-  # https://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html - this is about target
-  # platform libraries not host platform ones unlike normal. But since
-  # we can't rebuild those without also rebuilding the compiler itself,
-  # we opt to always build everything unlike our usual policy.
-  enableShared ? true
+, enableShared ? !stdenv.targetPlatform.isStatic
 , enableLTO ? !stdenv.hostPlatform.isStatic
 , texinfo ? null
 , perl ? null # optional, for texi2pod (then pod2man)
@@ -280,7 +275,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation ({
   };
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
-  inherit enableMultilib;
+  inherit enableShared enableMultilib;
 
   inherit (stdenv) is64bit;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/8/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/8/default.nix
index 609dfa722a65..e98197836955 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/8/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/8/default.nix
@@ -7,12 +7,7 @@
 , profiledCompiler ? false
 , langJit ? false
 , staticCompiler ? false
-, # N.B. the defult is intentionally not from an `isStatic`. See
-  # https://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html - this is about target
-  # platform libraries not host platform ones unlike normal. But since
-  # we can't rebuild those without also rebuilding the compiler itself,
-  # we opt to always build everything unlike our usual policy.
-  enableShared ? true
+, enableShared ? !stdenv.targetPlatform.isStatic
 , enableLTO ? !stdenv.hostPlatform.isStatic
 , texinfo ? null
 , perl ? null # optional, for texi2pod (then pod2man)
@@ -259,7 +254,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation ({
   };
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
-  inherit enableMultilib;
+  inherit enableShared enableMultilib;
 
   inherit (stdenv) is64bit;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/9/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/9/default.nix
index a96d16a6a502..a96a23da2ced 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/9/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/9/default.nix
@@ -9,12 +9,7 @@
 , profiledCompiler ? false
 , langJit ? false
 , staticCompiler ? false
-, # N.B. the defult is intentionally not from an `isStatic`. See
-  # https://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html - this is about target
-  # platform libraries not host platform ones unlike normal. But since
-  # we can't rebuild those without also rebuilding the compiler itself,
-  # we opt to always build everything unlike our usual policy.
-  enableShared ? true
+, enableShared ? !stdenv.targetPlatform.isStatic
 , enableLTO ? !stdenv.hostPlatform.isStatic
 , texinfo ? null
 , perl ? null # optional, for texi2pod (then pod2man)
@@ -285,7 +280,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation ({
   };
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
-  inherit enableMultilib;
+  inherit enableShared enableMultilib;
 
   inherit (stdenv) is64bit;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/builder.sh b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/builder.sh
index e6d41d7b29ab..9d0514f17590 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/builder.sh
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/builder.sh
@@ -222,6 +222,10 @@ postInstall() {
     moveToOutput "${targetConfig+$targetConfig/}lib/lib*.dll.a" "${!outputLib}"
     moveToOutput "share/gcc-*/python" "${!outputLib}"
 
+    if [ -z "$enableShared" ]; then
+        moveToOutput "${targetConfig+$targetConfig/}lib/lib*.a" "${!outputLib}"
+    fi
+
     for i in "${!outputLib}/${targetConfig}"/lib/*.{la,py}; do
         substituteInPlace "$i" --replace "$out" "${!outputLib}"
     done