There is no compelling reason to build this as a static executable.

sysutils/colorls/Makefile

@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
-# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.28 2014/11/29 19:16:48 naddy Exp $
+# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.29 2015/01/30 16:46:46 naddy Exp $
 
 COMMENT=	ls that can use color to display file attributes
 
-DISTNAME=	ls-5.6
-PKGNAME=	color${DISTNAME}
+VERSION=	5.6
+DISTNAME=	ls-${VERSION}
+PKGNAME=	colorls-${VERSION}
+REVISION=	0
 CATEGORIES=	sysutils
 
 MAINTAINER=	Christian Weisgerber <naddy@openbsd.org>
@@ -13,6 +15,8 @@ PERMIT_PACKAGE_CDROM=	Yes
 
 MASTER_SITES=	http://shell.uugrn.org/~naddy/
 
+WANTLIB=	c curses util
+
 WRKDIST=	${WRKDIR}/ls
 NO_TEST=	Yes
 

sysutils/colorls/patches/patch-Makefile

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-$OpenBSD: patch-Makefile,v 1.10 2013/08/18 15:58:17 mpi Exp $
+$OpenBSD: patch-Makefile,v 1.11 2015/01/30 16:46:46 naddy Exp $
 --- Makefile.orig	Wed Aug  6 21:09:09 2003
-+++ Makefile	Sun Aug 18 13:13:40 2013
-@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
- #	$OpenBSD: patch-Makefile,v 1.10 2013/08/18 15:58:17 mpi Exp $
++++ Makefile	Fri Jan 30 13:45:36 2015
+@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
+ #	$OpenBSD: patch-Makefile,v 1.11 2015/01/30 16:46:46 naddy Exp $
  
 -PROG=	ls
 +PROG=	colorls
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ $OpenBSD: patch-Makefile,v 1.10 2013/08/18 15:58:17 mpi Exp $
 +MANDIR=	${TRUEPREFIX}/man/man
 +
 +CFLAGS+= -DCOLORLS
-+LDSTATIC=${STATIC}
 +DPADD= ${LIBCURSES} ${LIBUTIL}
 +LDADD= -lcurses -lutil