diff --git a/hspell-1.0.sharedlib.patch b/hspell-1.0.sharedlib.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..81467c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hspell-1.0.sharedlib.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+Index: hspell-1.0/Makefile.in
+===================================================================
+--- hspell-1.0.orig/Makefile.in
++++ hspell-1.0/Makefile.in
+@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ LDFLAGS=@LDFLAGS@
+ 
+ # Our TARGETS variable chooses what to compile. Some things are
+ # optionally compiled depending on --enable-* paramters to configure.
+-TARGETS = @TARGETS@
++TARGETS = @TARGETS@ libhspell.a
+ all: $(TARGETS)
+ 
+ # SEDCMD controls on whether objective-kinuyim - about 130,000 rare verb
+@@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ clean:
+ 	      hebrew.wgz.lingsizes.tmp dmask.c install.js \
+ 	      spell-he.xpi he.dic he.aff README-he.txt \
+ 	      README_he_IL.txt he_IL.dic he_IL.aff he_IL.zip \
+-	      specfilter.o specfilter
++	      specfilter.o specfilter \
++	      libhspell.so.0 libhspell.so *.lo
+ 	rm -f hebeng/install.js hebeng/heb-eng.aff hebeng/heb-eng.dic \
+ 	      hebeng/README-he.txt hebeng/README-en-US.txt \
+ 	      hebeng/spell-heb-eng.xpi
+@@ -113,6 +114,9 @@ install: all
+ 	test -d $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDIR) || mkdir -m 755 -p $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDIR)
+ 	cp libhspell.a $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDIR)/
+ 	chmod 644 $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDIR)/libhspell.a
++	cp libhspell.so.0 $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDIR)/
++	chmod 755 $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDIR)/libhspell.so.0
++	ln -sf libhspell.so.0 $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDIR)/libhspell.so
+ 	test -d $(DESTDIR)$(INCLUDEDIR) || mkdir -m 755 -p $(DESTDIR)$(INCLUDEDIR)
+ 	cp hspell.h linginfo.h $(DESTDIR)$(INCLUDEDIR)/
+ 	chmod 644 $(DESTDIR)$(INCLUDEDIR)/hspell.h $(DESTDIR)$(INCLUDEDIR)/linginfo.h
+@@ -166,19 +170,30 @@ libhspell.a: dict_radix.o gimatria.o cor
+ 	ar cr $@ $^
+ 	-ranlib $@
+ 
+-$(HSPELL_EXECUTABLE): hspell.o tclHash.o libhspell.a
+-	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $(HSPELL_EXECUTABLE) hspell.o tclHash.o libhspell.a $(LIBS)
++EXTRAOBJECTSPIC=$(EXTRAOBJECTS:.o=.lo)
++
++%.lo: %.c
++	$(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(DEFS) -fPIC -DPIC -o $@ $<
++
++libhspell.so.0: dict_radix.lo gimatria.lo corlist.lo libhspell.lo $(EXTRAOBJECTSPIC)
++	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ -shared -Wl,-soname,libhspell.so.0 $^ -lz
++	ln -sf libhspell.so.0 libhspell.so
++
++$(HSPELL_EXECUTABLE): hspell.o tclHash.o libhspell.so.0
++	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $(HSPELL_EXECUTABLE) hspell.o tclHash.o libhspell.so.0 $(LIBS)
+ 
+ # remember to update this dependency list once in a while...
+ libhspell.o dict_radix.o find_sizes.o: dict_radix.h
+ dict_radix.o linginfo.o: gzbuffered.h
+ libhspell.o mk_he_affix.o: prefixes.c
++libhspell.lo mk_he_affix.lo: prefixes.c
+ hspell.o: hash.h tclHash.h
+ tclHash.o: tclHash.h
+ corlist.o gimatria.o hspell.o libhspell.o: hspell.h
+ hspell.o libhspell.o linginfo.o: linginfo.h hspell.h
+ linginfo.o: dmask.c
+ specfilter.o: prefixes.c
++specfilter.lo: prefixes.c
+ 
+ prefixes.c: genprefixes.pl PrefixBits.pl
+ 	$(PERL) -w ./genprefixes.pl >prefixes.c
diff --git a/hspell.spec b/hspell.spec
index eb9a055..2f1dd29 100644
--- a/hspell.spec
+++ b/hspell.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Summary: A Hebrew spell checker
 Name: hspell
 Version: 1.0
-Release: 8%{?dist}
+Release: 9%{?dist}
 URL: http://ivrix.org.il/projects/spell-checker/
 Source: http://ivrix.org.il/projects/spell-checker/hspell-%{version}.tar.gz
 License: GPL
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 BuildRequires: zlib-devel
 Obsoletes: hspell-fat
 Provides: hspell-fat = %{version}-%{release}
+Patch0: hspell-1.0.sharedlib.patch
 
 %description
 Hspell is a Hebrew SPELLer . It currently provides a mostly spell-like 
@@ -54,6 +55,7 @@ Hebrew hunspell dictionaries.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
+%patch -p1 -b .sharedlib.patch
 sed -i -e '/^\s\+strip\s/d' Makefile.in
 sed -i -e 's/gzip/gzip -n/g' Makefile.in
 
@@ -67,6 +69,7 @@ make myspell
 %install
 rm -rf %{buildroot}
 make DESTDIR=%{buildroot} install
+rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/libhspell.a
 
 mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_datadir}/myspell
 cp -p he.dic $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_datadir}/myspell/he_IL.dic
@@ -82,13 +85,14 @@ rm -rf %{buildroot}
 %{_bindir}/hspell
 %{_bindir}/hspell-i
 %{_bindir}/multispell
+%{_libdir}/libhspell.so.0
 %{_mandir}/man1/hspell.1*
 %{_datadir}/hspell/
 
 %files devel
 %defattr(-,root,root)
 %{_includedir}/*.h
-%{_libdir}/libhspell.a
+%{_libdir}/libhspell.so
 %{_mandir}/man3/hspell.3*
 
 %files -n hunspell-he
@@ -97,6 +101,9 @@ rm -rf %{buildroot}
 %{_datadir}/myspell/*
 
 %changelog
+* Wed May 14 2008 Caolan McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 1.0-9
+- Resolves: rhbz#313231 build hspell.so instead of a .a
+
 * Mon Feb 18 2008 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.0-8
 - Autorebuild for GCC 4.3