diff --git a/gtest.changes b/gtest.changes
index 040832c..9bc5c73 100644
--- a/gtest.changes
+++ b/gtest.changes
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Aug 12 13:27:39 UTC 2012 - i@marguerite.su
 
-- fix sles builds with shared libraries on.
+- force sles build static libraries, else a lot of inner test can't build.
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Aug 12 11:08:50 UTC 2012 - i@marguerite.su
diff --git a/gtest.spec b/gtest.spec
index aeb93ff..f9b81df 100644
--- a/gtest.spec
+++ b/gtest.spec
@@ -15,8 +15,11 @@
 # Please submit bugfixes or comments via http://bugs.opensuse.org/
 #
 
-
+%if 0%{?sles_version}
+%define build_shlib	0
+%else
 %define build_shlib	1
+%endif
 
 Name:           gtest
 Version:        1.6.0
@@ -26,7 +29,6 @@ Summary:        Google C++ Testing Framework
 Url:            http://code.google.com/p/googletest/
 Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
 Source0:        %{name}-%{version}.zip
-Patch0:		sles-gtest-unittest-hex-escape-sequence-out-of-range.patch
 BuildRequires:  cmake
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
 BuildRequires:  python
@@ -52,11 +54,6 @@ developing applications that use googletest.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n gtest-%{version}
-%if 0%{?sles_version}
-%if %build_shlib
-%patch0 -p1
-%endif
-%endif
 
 %build
 mkdir build
diff --git a/sles-gtest-unittest-hex-escape-sequence-out-of-range.patch b/sles-gtest-unittest-hex-escape-sequence-out-of-range.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 2e71cc9..0000000
--- a/sles-gtest-unittest-hex-escape-sequence-out-of-range.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-diff -urN gtest-1.6.0.orig/test/gtest_unittest.cc gtest-1.6.0/test/gtest_unittest.cc
---- gtest-1.6.0.orig/test/gtest_unittest.cc	2012-08-12 21:20:38.020951647 +0800
-+++ gtest-1.6.0/test/gtest_unittest.cc	2012-08-12 21:22:15.474733308 +0800
-@@ -404,13 +404,13 @@
- TEST(CodePointToUtf8Test, CanEncode17To21Bits) {
-   char buffer[32];
-   // 0 0001 0000 1000 1101 0011 => 11110-000 10-010000 10-100011 10-010011
--  EXPECT_STREQ("\xF0\x90\xA3\x93", CodePointToUtf8(L'\x108D3', buffer));
-+//  EXPECT_STREQ("\xF0\x90\xA3\x93", CodePointToUtf8(L'\x108D3', buffer));
- 
-   // 0 0001 0000 0100 0000 0000 => 11110-000 10-010000 10-010000 10-000000
--  EXPECT_STREQ("\xF0\x90\x90\x80", CodePointToUtf8(L'\x10400', buffer));
-+//  EXPECT_STREQ("\xF0\x90\x90\x80", CodePointToUtf8(L'\x10400', buffer));
- 
-   // 1 0000 1000 0110 0011 0100 => 11110-100 10-001000 10-011000 10-110100
--  EXPECT_STREQ("\xF4\x88\x98\xB4", CodePointToUtf8(L'\x108634', buffer));
-+//  EXPECT_STREQ("\xF4\x88\x98\xB4", CodePointToUtf8(L'\x108634', buffer));
- }
- 
- // Tests that encoding an invalid code-point generates the expected result.