diff --git a/gperftools.changes b/gperftools.changes
index 3e4b14e..baef74c 100644
--- a/gperftools.changes
+++ b/gperftools.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue May  8 14:54:18 UTC 2018 - mrostecki@suse.com
+
+- Add devel-static package, which is needed for building Envoy
+  (https://www.envoyproxy.io/) and Cilium with Envoy integration
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Mar 26 00:35:41 CEST 2018 - ro@suse.de
 
diff --git a/gperftools.spec b/gperftools.spec
index 3e91df3..8d087bd 100644
--- a/gperftools.spec
+++ b/gperftools.spec
@@ -78,6 +78,15 @@ Obsoletes:      google-perftools-devel
 The gperftools-devel package contains static and debug libraries and header
 files for developing applications that use the gperftools package.
 
+%package devel-static
+Summary:        Static libraries for performance tools for C++
+Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
+Requires:       %{name}-devel = %{version}
+
+%description devel-static
+The gperftools-devel-static package contains static libraries for developing
+applications that use the gperftools package.
+
 %prep
 %setup -q
 %patch1 -p1
@@ -95,7 +104,6 @@ export CPPFLAGS="$VALGRIND_FL"
 export CXXFLAGS="%{optflags} -fno-strict-aliasing $VALGRIND_FL"
 export CFLAGS="%{optflags} -fno-strict-aliasing $VALGRIND_FL"
 %configure \
-  --disable-static \
   --with-gnu-ld \
   --with-pic \
   --docdir=%{_defaultdocdir}/%{name}
@@ -143,4 +151,13 @@ find %{buildroot} -type f -name "*.la" -delete -print
 %{_libdir}/libtcmalloc_and_profiler.so
 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/*.pc
 
+%files devel-static
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%{_libdir}/libprofiler.a
+%{_libdir}/libtcmalloc.a
+%{_libdir}/libtcmalloc_debug.a
+%{_libdir}/libtcmalloc_minimal.a
+%{_libdir}/libtcmalloc_minimal_debug.a
+%{_libdir}/libtcmalloc_and_profiler.a
+
 %changelog