diff --git a/vtk.changes b/vtk.changes
index 2ec150c..173265f 100644
--- a/vtk.changes
+++ b/vtk.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Sep 10 20:00:01 UTC 2019 - Christophe Giboudeaux <christophe@krop.fr>
+
+- Use -ffat-lto-objects when building static libraries.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Apr 14 10:14:39 UTC 2019 - Christophe Giboudeaux <christophe@krop.fr>
 
diff --git a/vtk.spec b/vtk.spec
index 94ae271..0601c9a 100644
--- a/vtk.spec
+++ b/vtk.spec
@@ -351,6 +351,7 @@ languages.
 grep -rl '\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./VTKData' . | xargs -r perl -pi -e's,\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./VTKData,%{_datadir}/vtkdata,g'
 
 %build
+%global _lto_cflags %{_lto_cflags} -ffat-lto-objects
 %if %{with mpi}
 source %{mpiprefix}/bin/mpivars.sh
 export CC=mpicc