diff --git a/cpp/CMakeLists.txt b/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
index fe9132b223..d7eeb60b27 100644
--- a/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ option(CUDA_ENABLE_KERNELINFO "Enable kernel resource usage info" OFF)
 option(CUDA_ENABLE_LINEINFO
        "Enable the -lineinfo option for nvcc (useful for cuda-memcheck / profiler)" OFF
 )
-option(CUDA_STATIC_RUNTIME "Statically link the CUDA toolkit runtime and libraries" OFF)
+option(CUDA_STATIC_RUNTIME "Statically link the CUDA runtime" OFF)
+option(CUDA_STATIC_MATH_LIBRARIES "Statically link the CUDA math libraries" OFF)
 option(CUDA_LOG_COMPILE_TIME "Write a log of compilation times to nvcc_compile_log.csv" OFF)
 option(DETECT_CONDA_ENV "Enable detection of conda environment for dependencies" ON)
 option(DISABLE_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS "Disable deprecaction warnings " ON)
@@ -105,7 +106,10 @@ message(VERBOSE "RAFT: Enable kernel resource usage info: ${CUDA_ENABLE_KERNELIN
 message(VERBOSE "RAFT: Enable lineinfo in nvcc: ${CUDA_ENABLE_LINEINFO}")
 message(VERBOSE "RAFT: Enable nvtx markers: ${RAFT_NVTX}")
 message(VERBOSE
-        "RAFT: Statically link the CUDA toolkit runtime and libraries: ${CUDA_STATIC_RUNTIME}"
+        "RAFT: Statically link the CUDA runtime: ${CUDA_STATIC_RUNTIME}"
+)
+message(VERBOSE
+        "RAFT: Statically link the CUDA math libraries: ${CUDA_STATIC_MATH_LIBRARIES}"
 )
 
 # Set RMM logging level
@@ -135,7 +139,7 @@ endif()
 # * compiler options ----------------------------------------------------------
 
 set(_ctk_static_suffix "")
-if(CUDA_STATIC_RUNTIME)
+if(CUDA_STATIC_MATH_LIBRARIES)
   set(_ctk_static_suffix "_static")
 endif()
 
diff --git a/docs/source/build.md b/docs/source/build.md
index 357d460669..10e66776de 100644
--- a/docs/source/build.md
+++ b/docs/source/build.md
@@ -257,19 +257,20 @@ RAFT's CMake has the following configurable flags available:
 
 | Flag                            | Possible Values      | Default Value | Behavior                                                                     |
 |---------------------------------|----------------------| --- |------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
-| BUILD_TESTS                     | ON, OFF              | ON | Compile Googletests                                                          |
+| BUILD_TESTS                     | ON, OFF              | ON  | Compile Googletests                                                          |
 | BUILD_PRIMS_BENCH               | ON, OFF              | OFF | Compile benchmarks                                                           |
-| BUILD_ANN_BENCH                 | ON, OFF              | OFF | Compile end-to-end ANN benchmarks |
+| BUILD_ANN_BENCH                 | ON, OFF              | OFF | Compile end-to-end ANN benchmarks                                            |
 | CUDA_ENABLE_KERNELINFO          | ON, OFF              | OFF | Enables `kernelinfo` in nvcc. This is useful for `compute-sanitizer`         |
 | CUDA_ENABLE_LINEINFO            | ON, OFF              | OFF | Enable the -lineinfo option for nvcc                                         |
 | CUDA_STATIC_RUNTIME             | ON, OFF              | OFF | Statically link the CUDA runtime                                             |
-| DETECT_CONDA_ENV                | ON, OFF              | ON | Enable detection of conda environment for dependencies                       |
-| raft_FIND_COMPONENTS            | compiled distributed | | Configures the optional components as a space-separated list                 |
+| CUDA_STATIC_MATH_LIBRARIES      | ON, OFF              | OFF | Statically link the CUDA math libraries                                      |
+| DETECT_CONDA_ENV                | ON, OFF              | ON  | Enable detection of conda environment for dependencies                       |
+| raft_FIND_COMPONENTS            | compiled distributed |     | Configures the optional components as a space-separated list                 |
 | RAFT_COMPILE_LIBRARY            | ON, OFF              | ON if either BUILD_TESTS or BUILD_PRIMS_BENCH is ON; otherwise OFF | Compiles all `libraft` shared libraries (these are required for Googletests) |
-| RAFT_ENABLE_CUBLAS_DEPENDENCY   | ON, OFF | ON | Link against cublas library in `raft::raft`                                  | 
-| RAFT_ENABLE_CUSOLVER_DEPENDENCY | ON, OFF | ON | Link against cusolver library in `raft::raft`                                | 
-| RAFT_ENABLE_CUSPARSE_DEPENDENCY | ON, OFF | ON | Link against cusparse library in `raft::raft`                                | 
-| RAFT_ENABLE_CUSOLVER_DEPENDENCY | ON, OFF | ON | Link against curand library in `raft::raft`                                  | 
+| RAFT_ENABLE_CUBLAS_DEPENDENCY   | ON, OFF              | ON  | Link against cublas library in `raft::raft`                                  | 
+| RAFT_ENABLE_CUSOLVER_DEPENDENCY | ON, OFF              | ON  | Link against cusolver library in `raft::raft`                                | 
+| RAFT_ENABLE_CUSPARSE_DEPENDENCY | ON, OFF              | ON  | Link against cusparse library in `raft::raft`                                | 
+| RAFT_ENABLE_CUSOLVER_DEPENDENCY | ON, OFF              | ON  | Link against curand library in `raft::raft`                                  | 
 | RAFT_NVTX                       | ON, OFF              | OFF | Enable NVTX Markers                                                          |
 
 ### Build documentation
diff --git a/python/pylibraft/CMakeLists.txt b/python/pylibraft/CMakeLists.txt
index 7a2d77041d..6cbe8e4cbf 100644
--- a/python/pylibraft/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/python/pylibraft/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ if(NOT raft_FOUND)
   set(BUILD_ANN_BENCH OFF)
   set(RAFT_COMPILE_LIBRARY ON)
   set(CUDA_STATIC_RUNTIME ON)
+  set(CUDA_STATIC_MATH_LIBRARIES ON)
 
   add_subdirectory(../../cpp raft-cpp EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
 
diff --git a/python/raft-dask/CMakeLists.txt b/python/raft-dask/CMakeLists.txt
index 2c629f3b73..197ddae05f 100644
--- a/python/raft-dask/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/python/raft-dask/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ if(NOT raft_FOUND)
   set(RAFT_COMPILE_DIST_LIBRARY OFF)
   set(RAFT_COMPILE_NN_LIBRARY OFF)
   set(CUDA_STATIC_RUNTIME ON)
+  set(CUDA_STATIC_MATH_LIBRARIES ON)
   set(RAFT_DASK_UCXX_STATIC ON)
 
   add_subdirectory(../../cpp raft-cpp EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)