diff --git a/app-text/libabw/libabw-0.1.3-r1.ebuild b/app-text/libabw/libabw-0.1.3-r1.ebuild
index 3d6e9724578ac..6cc33af72cd80 100644
--- a/app-text/libabw/libabw-0.1.3-r1.ebuild
+++ b/app-text/libabw/libabw-0.1.3-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
-EAPI=7
-
-inherit flag-o-matic
+EAPI=8
 
 DESCRIPTION="Library parsing abiword documents"
 HOMEPAGE="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/DLP/Libraries/libabw"
@@ -12,7 +10,7 @@ SRC_URI="https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/src/${PN}/${P}.tar.xz"
 LICENSE="MPL-2.0"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm arm64 ~loong ppc64 ~riscv x86"
-IUSE="doc static-libs"
+IUSE="doc"
 
 BDEPEND="
 	virtual/pkgconfig
@@ -29,13 +27,7 @@ DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 "
 
 src_configure() {
-	# bug 619470
-	append-cxxflags -std=c++14
-
-	local myeconfargs=(
-		$(use_with doc docs)
-		$(use_enable static-libs static)
-	)
+	local myeconfargs=( $(use_with doc docs) )
 	econf "${myeconfargs[@]}"
 }