diff --git a/lib/System/Unix/Process.inc b/lib/System/Unix/Process.inc
index 2da31c9f215..c4ce35a208f 100644
--- a/lib/System/Unix/Process.inc
+++ b/lib/System/Unix/Process.inc
@@ -46,11 +46,11 @@ Process::GetPageSize()
   // On Cygwin, getpagesize() returns 64k but the page size for the purposes of
   // memory protection and mmap() is 4k.
   // See http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-01/threads.html#00492
-  static const int page_size = 0x1000;
+  const int page_size = 0x1000;
 #elif defined(HAVE_GETPAGESIZE)
-  static const int page_size = ::getpagesize();
+  const int page_size = ::getpagesize();
 #elif defined(HAVE_SYSCONF)
-  static long page_size = ::sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE);
+  long page_size = ::sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE);
 #else
 #warning Cannot get the page size on this machine
 #endif