diff --git a/guile.changes b/guile.changes
index 64c0eea..f09d9ad 100644
--- a/guile.changes
+++ b/guile.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Jan 16 20:26:37 CET 2009 - crrodriguez@suse.de
+
+-  remove static libraries
+- run make check
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Sep  7 11:34:14 CEST 2008 - schwab@suse.de
 
diff --git a/guile.spec b/guile.spec
index 91f1ac9..3bd3df8 100644
--- a/guile.spec
+++ b/guile.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package guile (Version 1.8.5)
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2008 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2009 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ License:        LGPL v2.1 or later
 Group:          Development/Languages/Scheme
 AutoReqProv:    on
 Version:        1.8.5
-Release:        22
+Release:        26
 %define         GUILEVERSION 1.8
 Summary:        GNU's Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension
 Url:            http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
@@ -96,10 +96,12 @@ sed -i s/-Werror// configure.in configure
 autoreconf -fi
 # FIXME: Following files are apparently compiled without RPM_OPT_FLAGS:
 # gen-scmconfig.c,c-tokenize.c
-%configure\
+%configure --disable-static --with-pic\
 	--with-threads
 make %{?jobs:-j%jobs}
-#make check
+
+%check
+make check
 
 %install
 make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
@@ -147,10 +149,12 @@ rm -f usr/share/guile/site/slibcat.SuSEconfig
 %doc %{_infodir}/goops.info.gz
 %doc %{_infodir}/guile-tut.info.gz
 %doc %{_infodir}/r5rs.info.gz
-%{_libdir}/libguile*.a
 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/*
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Jan 16 2009 crrodriguez@suse.de
+-  remove static libraries
+- run make check
 * Sun Sep 07 2008 schwab@suse.de
 - Fix conflicting options.
 * Mon Jul 07 2008 pgajdos@suse.cz
@@ -208,7 +212,7 @@ rm -f usr/share/guile/site/slibcat.SuSEconfig
 * Mon Oct 16 2006 anicka@suse.cz
 - move /usr/share/guile from devel to main package
   (fixes ##212545)
-* Mon Oct 16 2006 schwab@suse.de
+* Sun Oct 15 2006 schwab@suse.de
 - Make sure config.rpath is present.
 * Fri Oct 13 2006 schwab@suse.de
 - Add split provide.
@@ -272,7 +276,7 @@ rm -f usr/share/guile/site/slibcat.SuSEconfig
 * Mon Feb 10 2003 sbrabec@suse.cz
 - Updated to version 1.6.2.
 - Use %%install_info (bug #23423).
-* Thu Dec 12 2002 garloff@suse.de
+* Wed Dec 11 2002 garloff@suse.de
 - Make slib integration work independent of guile version number.
 * Wed Dec 04 2002 sbrabec@suse.cz
 - Change error message for unknown platform to warning. It allows to
@@ -301,7 +305,7 @@ rm -f usr/share/guile/site/slibcat.SuSEconfig
 - used -a option with automake to fix for PLUS distribution
 - added back guile-doc-snarf: work around problem with cpp on ia64
   bebause of 7.2-ia64+kde distribution
-* Thu Feb 07 2002 schwab@suse.de
+* Wed Feb 06 2002 schwab@suse.de
 - Don't add /usr/include and /usr/local/include to include search path.
 - Avoid trigraph.
 - Add support for ia64 register backing store (from cvs).
@@ -344,7 +348,7 @@ rm -f usr/share/guile/site/slibcat.SuSEconfig
 - Build with -O0 on ia64.
 * Thu Nov 23 2000 cihlar@suse.cz
 - fixed to compile on older distros
-* Mon Nov 13 2000 ro@suse.de
+* Sun Nov 12 2000 ro@suse.de
 - don't redeclare inet_aton
 * Wed Nov 08 2000 ro@suse.de
 - changed %%post to %%triggerin -- scheme
@@ -357,7 +361,7 @@ rm -f usr/share/guile/site/slibcat.SuSEconfig
 - use macro for infodir
 * Wed Aug 02 2000 cihlar@suse.cz
 - update to version 1.4
-* Sat Apr 08 2000 bk@suse.de
+* Fri Apr 07 2000 bk@suse.de
 - And no QuickThreads yet on s390 too ;-)
 * Thu Apr 06 2000 schwab@suse.de
 - No QuickThreads yet on ia64.