diff --git a/pcre.changes b/pcre.changes
index 8b6d22b..ae4d3d2 100644
--- a/pcre.changes
+++ b/pcre.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu May 10 15:59:21 UTC 2012 - afaerber@suse.de
+
+- Add devel-static package
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Feb  7 15:10:59 UTC 2012 - crrodriguez@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/pcre.spec b/pcre.spec
index 8669f09..b511524 100644
--- a/pcre.spec
+++ b/pcre.spec
@@ -45,10 +45,10 @@ as Perl 5.
 %package        devel
 Summary:        A library for Perl-compatible regular expressions
 Group:          System/Libraries
-Requires:       libstdc++-devel
 Requires:       libpcre1 = %{version}
-Requires:       libpcreposix0 = %{version}
 Requires:       libpcrecpp0 = %{version}
+Requires:       libpcreposix0 = %{version}
+Requires:       libstdc++-devel
 # bug437293
 %ifarch ppc64
 Obsoletes:      pcre-devel-64bit
@@ -60,6 +60,17 @@ The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular
 expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics
 as Perl 5.
 
+%package        devel-static
+Summary:        A library for Perl-compatible regular expressions
+Group:          System/Libraries
+Requires:       pcre-devel = %version
+
+%description devel-static
+The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular
+expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics
+as Perl 5.
+This package contains static versions of the PCRE libraries.
+
 %package -n libpcre1
 Summary:        A library for Perl-compatible regular expressions
 Group:          System/Libraries
@@ -117,7 +128,7 @@ as Perl 5.
 
 %build
 autoreconf -fiv
-%configure --enable-jit --disable-static \
+%configure --enable-jit --enable-static \
 	    --with-link-size=2 \
 	    --with-match-limit=10000000 \
 	    --enable-newline-is-lf \
@@ -199,4 +210,8 @@ make test
 %{_mandir}/man1/pcre-config.*
 %{_mandir}/man3/*.gz
 
+%files devel-static
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%{_libdir}/*.a
+
 %changelog