diff --git a/recipes-osmocom/libosmo-sccp/libosmo-sccp_git.bb b/recipes-osmocom/libosmo-sccp/libosmo-sccp_git.bb
index 1ce9efc..3d55f69 100644
--- a/recipes-osmocom/libosmo-sccp/libosmo-sccp_git.bb
+++ b/recipes-osmocom/libosmo-sccp/libosmo-sccp_git.bb
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
 SRC_URI = "git://git.osmocom.org/libosmo-sccp.git;protocol=git"
 PR = "${INC_PR}.0"
 
+# we require the tests to link to the static libosmo-sigtran library to
+# access symbols not starting with osmo_*
+EXTRA_OECONF_remove = "--disable-static"
+
 # because "${WORKDIR}/git" is not a git repo, it can't figure out the version
 do_configure_prepend() {
     echo "${PV}" > ${S}/.tarball-version