diff --git a/attr.changes b/attr.changes
index 13263bc..0cc4e1c 100644
--- a/attr.changes
+++ b/attr.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Oct 14 12:12:20 UTC 2011 - afaerber@suse.com
+
+- Add libattr-devel-static package
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Sep 16 18:35:52 UTC 2011 - jengelh@medozas.de
 
diff --git a/attr.spec b/attr.spec
index 3464a37..ff0efdb 100644
--- a/attr.spec
+++ b/attr.spec
@@ -77,6 +77,18 @@ programs which make use of extended attributes. For Linux programs, the
 documented system call API is the recommended interface, but an SGI
 IRIX compatibility interface is also provided.
 
+%package -n libattr-devel-static
+License:        GPLv2+ ; LGPLv2.1+
+Summary:        Include Files and Libraries mandatory for Development
+AutoReqProv:    on
+Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
+Provides:       libattr-devel:%{_libdir}/libattr.a
+Requires:       libattr-devel = %version
+
+%description -n libattr-devel-static
+This package contains the static library of libattr which is needed to develop
+statically linked programs which make use of extended attributes.
+
 %prep
 %setup -q
 %patch0 -p1
@@ -92,7 +104,6 @@ CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" \
 	--sbindir=/bin \
 	--libdir=/%{_lib} \
 	--libexecdir=/%{_libdir} \
-	--disable-static \
 	--with-pic
 %{__make} %{?_smp_mflags}
 
@@ -153,6 +164,10 @@ chmod 755 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_lib}/libattr.so.1*
 %doc %attr(644,root,root) %{_mandir}/man3/attr_removef.3.gz*
 %doc %attr(644,root,root) %{_mandir}/man3/attr_setf.3.gz*
 
+%files -n libattr-devel-static
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%{_libdir}/libattr.a
+
 %files -n %lname
 %defattr (-,root,root)
 /%{_lib}/libattr.so.1*