diff --git a/text2speech/flite/flite.conf b/text2speech/flite/flite.conf
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+++ b/text2speech/flite/flite.conf
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+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+#
+# Filename: package/.../flite/flite.conf
+# Copyright (C) 2011 The OpenSDE Project
+#
+# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. A copy of the
+# GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING.
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+# building shared libs has to be enabled explicitely
+if [ "$SDECFG_STATIC" != 1 ] ; then
+	var_append extraconfopt ' ' "--enable-shared"
+fi