diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 183278d1a..a449b3532 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ option(SHERPA_ONNX_ENABLE_JNI "Whether to build JNI internface" OFF)
 option(SHERPA_ONNX_ENABLE_C_API "Whether to build C API" ON)
 option(SHERPA_ONNX_ENABLE_WEBSOCKET "Whether to build webscoket server/client" ON)
 option(SHERPA_ONNX_ENABLE_GPU "Enable ONNX Runtime GPU support" OFF)
-option(SHERPA_ONNX_LINK_LIBSTDCPP_STATICALLY "True to link libstdc++ statically. Used only when BUILD_SHARED_LIBS is ON on Linux" ON)
+option(SHERPA_ONNX_LINK_LIBSTDCPP_STATICALLY "True to link libstdc++ statically. Used only when BUILD_SHARED_LIBS is OFF on Linux" ON)
 
 set(CMAKE_ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/lib")
 set(CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/lib")