diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 85a6a58b1a..4b919fb7e5 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2000-04-04  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@suse.de>
+
+	* intl/Makefile: Only run the gettext test with shared libraries.
+
 2000-03-16  Mark Kettenis  <kettenis@gnu.org>
 
 	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/sys/procfs.h (prfpregset_t):
diff --git a/intl/Makefile b/intl/Makefile
index ec81df1221..fc51e2ec13 100644
--- a/intl/Makefile
+++ b/intl/Makefile
@@ -44,10 +44,12 @@ $(objpfx)plural.o: plural.c
 
 include ../Rules
 
+ifeq (yes,$(build-shared))
 .PHONY: do-gettext-test
 tests: do-gettext-test
 do-gettext-test: tst-gettext.sh $(objpfx)tst-gettext
 	$(SHELL) -e $< $(common-objpfx) $(objpfx)
+endif
 
 $(objpfx)msgs.h: po2test.sed ../po/de.po
 	$(make-target-directory)