diff --git a/libguestfs.changes b/libguestfs.changes
index 40e9420..5fffafe 100644
--- a/libguestfs.changes
+++ b/libguestfs.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Sep 10 09:59:19 UTC 2019 - Christophe Giboudeaux <christophe@krop.fr>
+
+- Use -ffat-lto-objects when building static libraries.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Sep  9 16:32:56 UTC 2019 - Larry Dewey <ldewey@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/libguestfs.spec b/libguestfs.spec
index 892a086..03753de 100644
--- a/libguestfs.spec
+++ b/libguestfs.spec
@@ -573,6 +573,7 @@ It can import a variety of guest operating systems from libvirt-managed hosts.
 %patch101 -p1
 
 %build
+%global _lto_cflags %{_lto_cflags} -ffat-lto-objects
 bison --version
 # [Bug 789653] sles11 perl obsoletes perl-Pod-Simple unconditionally
 export PERLLIB=`echo $PWD/Pod-Simple-*/lib`