Bug#963057: please detect static libs that contains lto .o files

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.80.0
Severity: wishlist

Dear Lintian maintainers,

Could lintian detect static libraries that contain LTO objects files
instead of standard object files ?

There are two cases:
-flto -ffat-lto-objects: the static library works but is larger than needed.

This can be detected with 
objdump -x |grep .gnu.lto

-flto -fno-fat-lto-objects: (default for -flto): 
the static library will not work at all.
the .o is almost empty.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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