Index: rpmlint-rpmlint-1.11/BinariesCheck.py
===================================================================
--- rpmlint-rpmlint-1.11.orig/BinariesCheck.py
+++ rpmlint-rpmlint-1.11/BinariesCheck.py
@@ -73,6 +73,10 @@ class BinaryInfo(object):
     mktemp_call_regex = create_regexp_call('mktemp')
     lto_section_name_prefix = '.gnu.lto_.'
 
+    # [Nr] Name              Type            Address          Off    Size   ES Flg Lk Inf Al
+    # [ 1] .text             PROGBITS        0000000000000000 000040 000000 00  AX  0   0  1
+    section_regex = re.compile(r'.*\] (?P<section>\S*)\s*\S+\s*\S*\s*\S*\s*(?P<size>\w*)')
+
     def __init__(self, pkg, path, fname, is_ar, is_shlib):
         self.readelf_error = False
         self.needed = []
@@ -92,6 +96,7 @@ class BinaryInfo(object):
         self.symtab = False
         self.tail = ''
         self.lto_sections = False
+        self.no_text_in_archive = False
 
         self.setgid = False
         self.setuid = False
@@ -102,6 +107,7 @@ class BinaryInfo(object):
         self.mktemp = False
 
         is_debug = path.endswith('.debug')
+        is_archive = path.endswith('.a')
         # Currently this implementation works only on specific
         # architectures due to reliance on arch specific assembly.
         if (pkg.arch.startswith('armv') or pkg.arch == 'aarch64'):
@@ -117,6 +123,24 @@ class BinaryInfo(object):
             ('readelf', '-W', '-S', '-l', '-d', '-s', path))
         if not res[0]:
             lines = res[1].splitlines()
+
+            # For an archive, test if all .text sections are empty
+            if is_archive and not ('/usr/lib64/ghc' in path or '/usr/lib/ghc' in path):
+                has_text_segment = False
+                non_zero_text_segment = False
+
+                for line in lines:
+                    r = self.section_regex.search(line)
+                    if r:
+                        sn = r.group('section')
+                        if sn == '.preinit_array' or sn == '.init_array' or sn == '.fini_array' or sn.startswith('.text'):
+                            has_text_segment = True
+                            size = int(r.group('size'), 16)
+                            if size > 0:
+                                non_zero_text_segment = True
+                if has_text_segment and not non_zero_text_segment:
+                    self.no_text_in_archive = True
+
             for line in lines:
                 if BinaryInfo.lto_section_name_prefix in line:
                     self.lto_sections = True
@@ -522,6 +546,9 @@ class BinariesCheck(AbstractCheck.Abstra
             if bin_info.lto_sections:
                 printError(pkg, 'lto-bytecode', fname)
 
+            if bin_info.no_text_in_archive:
+                printError(pkg, 'lto-no-text-in-archive', fname)
+
             for ec in bin_info.forbidden_calls:
                 printWarning(pkg, ec, fname,
                              BinaryInfo.forbidden_functions[ec]['f_name'])
@@ -846,6 +873,10 @@ implementations only strip if the permis
 'lto-bytecode',
 '''This executable contains a LTO section.  LTO bytecode is not portable
 and should not be distributed in static libraries or e.g. Python modules.''',
+
+'lto-no-text-in-archive',
+'''This archive does not contain a non-empty .text section.  The archive
+was not created with -ffat-lto-objects option.''',
 )
 
 # BinariesCheck.py ends here