diff --git a/gflags.changes b/gflags.changes
index 11ecfdb..410c2f5 100644
--- a/gflags.changes
+++ b/gflags.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Sep 10 20:23:51 UTC 2019 - Christophe Giboudeaux <christophe@krop.fr>
+
+- Use -ffat-lto-objects when building static libraries.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Oct 30 10:29:06 UTC 2018 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/gflags.spec b/gflags.spec
index 04ac1ed..b47ad94 100644
--- a/gflags.spec
+++ b/gflags.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package gflags
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2018 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2019 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ This package contains the static libraries for gflags.
 %setup -q
 
 %build
+%global _lto_cflags %{_lto_cflags} -ffat-lto-objects
 CFLAGS="%{optflags} -pthread"
 CXXFLAGS="%{optflags} -pthread"
 export CFLAGS CXXFLAGS