diff --git a/gnome-desktop.changes b/gnome-desktop.changes
index 56cedc9..a9ee4b2 100644
--- a/gnome-desktop.changes
+++ b/gnome-desktop.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Feb  7 12:37:59 CET 2007 - sbrabec@suse.cz
+
+- Do not build unusable static libraries (#238552).
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Jan  7 23:37:13 CET 2007 - sbrabec@suse.cz
 
diff --git a/gnome-desktop.spec b/gnome-desktop.spec
index 8e8078d..4789edd 100644
--- a/gnome-desktop.spec
+++ b/gnome-desktop.spec
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Requires:       libgnomesu
 Autoreqprov:    on
 Obsoletes:      gnome-core
 Version:        2.16.1
-Release:        37
+Release:        40
 Summary:        The GNOME Desktop API Library
 Source:         %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
 Url:            http://www.gnome.org
@@ -94,17 +94,15 @@ Authors:
 
 %build
 autoreconf -f -i
-CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" \
-    %configure \
-    --localstatedir=/var/lib \
-    --with-kde-datadir=/opt/kde3 \
-    --with-gnome-distributor="SUSE" \
-    --enable-platform-gnome2 \
-    --disable-scrollkeeper
-make
+%configure\
+	--disable-static\
+	--disable-scrollkeeper\
+	--with-kde-datadir=/opt/kde3\
+	--with-gnome-distributor="SUSE"
+make %{?jobs:-j%jobs}
 
 %install
-make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+%makeinstall
 %find_lang %{name}-2.0
 %find_lang fdl %{name}-2.0.lang
 %find_lang gnome-feedback %{name}-2.0.lang
@@ -150,6 +148,8 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %{_datadir}/gtk-doc/html/gnome-desktop
 
 %changelog -n gnome-desktop
+* Wed Feb 07 2007 - sbrabec@suse.cz
+- Do not build unusable static libraries (#238552).
 * Sun Jan 07 2007 - sbrabec@suse.cz
 - Splitted gnome-desktop-doc from gnome-desktop.
 * Thu Dec 14 2006 - maw@suse.de