diff --git a/coreutils.changes b/coreutils.changes
index 4ee4a7a..9e4bc27 100644
--- a/coreutils.changes
+++ b/coreutils.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Nov 19 13:04:44 UTC 2012 - idonmez@suse.com
+
+- Statically link to gmp otherwise expr depends on gmp and gmp
+  configure script depends on expr which creates a build cycle.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Nov  8 13:12:25 CET 2012 - pth@suse.de
 
diff --git a/coreutils.spec b/coreutils.spec
index df4c321..92d4c21 100644
--- a/coreutils.spec
+++ b/coreutils.spec
@@ -132,6 +132,9 @@ uname unexpand uniq unlink uptime users vdir wc who whoami yes
 
 xz -dc %{S:4} >po/de.po
 
+# We need to statically link to gmp, otherwise we have a build loop
+sed -i s,'$(LIB_GMP)',%{_libdir}/libgmp.a,g src/Makefile.am
+
 %build
 AUTOPOINT=true autoreconf -fi
 export CFLAGS="%optflags -Wall"