diff --git a/filesystem/udev/no_libvolume_id_so.diff b/filesystem/udev/no_libvolume_id_so.diff
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..669a9f45b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/filesystem/udev/no_libvolume_id_so.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+# 
+# Filename: package/.../udev/no_libvolume_id_so.diff
+# Copyright (C) 2007 The OpenSDE Project
+# 
+# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
+# 
+# This patch file is dual-licensed. It is available under the license the
+# patched project is licensed under, as long as it is an OpenSource license
+# as defined at http://www.opensource.org/ (e.g. BSD, X11) or under the terms
+# of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
+# Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
+# version.
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+--- ./extras/volume_id/lib/Makefile.orig	2007-06-14 13:00:06.000000000 -0400
++++ ./extras/volume_id/lib/Makefile	2007-06-14 13:01:51.000000000 -0400
+@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
+ 	libvolume_id.h		\
+ 	util.h
+ 
+-all: libvolume_id.a $(SHLIB) libvolume_id.pc
++all: libvolume_id.a libvolume_id.pc
+ .PHONY: all
+ .DEFAULT: all
+ 
+@@ -103,10 +103,8 @@
+ 
+ install: all
+ 	$(INSTALL_DATA) -D libvolume_id.h $(DESTDIR)$(includedir)/libvolume_id.h
+-	$(INSTALL_LIB) -D $(SHLIB) $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/$(SHLIB)
+ 	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(usrlibdir)/
+-	ln -sf $(SHLIB) $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/libvolume_id.so.$(SHLIB_CUR)
+-	ln -sf $(libdir)/$(SHLIB) $(DESTDIR)$(usrlibdir)/libvolume_id.so
++	$(INSTALL_LIB) -D libvolume_id.a $(DESTDIR)$(usrlibdir)/libvolume_id.a
+ 	$(INSTALL_DATA) -D libvolume_id.pc $(DESTDIR)$(usrlibdir)/pkgconfig/libvolume_id.pc
+ .PHONY: install
+ 
diff --git a/filesystem/udev/udev.conf b/filesystem/udev/udev.conf
index 03b6d1b59..f1ea4a931 100644
--- a/filesystem/udev/udev.conf
+++ b/filesystem/udev/udev.conf
@@ -41,8 +41,18 @@ udev_devices() {
 		add_flist "$1"
 	}
 
+	forced_mkfifo() {
+		local mode=
+		case "$1" in
+			-m)		mode="$2"; shift; shift ;;
+		esac
+		mkfifo ${mode:+-m $mode} "$@"
+		add_flist "$1"
+	}
+	
 	forced_mknod -m 0666 "$devdir/null" c 1 3
 	forced_mknod -m 0600 "$devdir/console" c 5 1
+	forced_mkfifo -m 0666 "$devdir/log"
 }
 
 udev_rules() {
@@ -73,6 +83,13 @@ hook_add postmake 7 'udev_helpers'
 
 var_append makeopt ' ' "LD=$CC"
 
+var_append makeopt	' ' 'DEBUG=true'
+
+if [ "$SDECFG_STATIC" == "1" ]; then
+	var_append makeopt ' ' "VOLUME_ID_STATIC=true"
+	var_append patchfiles ' ' "$confdir/no_libvolume_id_so.diff"
+fi
+
 # list of extra helpers to build and install
 hook_add postpatch 5 "export extras=\$( ls -1d extras/* | grep -v '\.sh' | tr '\n' ' ' )"
 var_append makeopt	' ' 'EXTRAS="$extras"'