diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/t/tesseract/tesseract-5.3.0-GCCcore-11.3.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/t/tesseract/tesseract-5.3.0-GCCcore-11.3.0.eb
index fed7c2635a0f..9bf893a4d12f 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyconfigs/t/tesseract/tesseract-5.3.0-GCCcore-11.3.0.eb
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/t/tesseract/tesseract-5.3.0-GCCcore-11.3.0.eb
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ dependencies = [
     ('Pango', '1.50.7'),
 ]
 
-separate_build_dir = True
+configopts = ['-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON', '-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF']
 
 postinstallcmds = [
     'rm %(builddir)s/tessdata_best-4.1.0/configs',
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ modextrapaths = {
 }
 
 sanity_check_paths = {
-    'files': ['bin/tesseract'],
+    'files': ['bin/tesseract', 'lib/libtesseract.a', 'lib/libtesseract.%s' % SHLIB_EXT],
     'dirs': ['share/tessdata', 'include/tesseract']
 }