diff --git a/meta-selftest/recipes-test/selftest-hardlink/selftest-hardlink.bb b/meta-selftest/recipes-test/selftest-hardlink/selftest-hardlink.bb
index be346b8a0e..052bf0c92a 100644
--- a/meta-selftest/recipes-test/selftest-hardlink/selftest-hardlink.bb
+++ b/meta-selftest/recipes-test/selftest-hardlink/selftest-hardlink.bb
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}"
 
 do_compile () {
 	${CC} hello.c -o hello1 ${CFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS}
+
+	${CC} hello.c -c -o hello.o ${CFLAGS}
+	${AR} rcs libhello.a hello.o
 }
 
 do_install () {
@@ -22,9 +25,19 @@ do_install () {
 	ln ${D}${bindir}/hello1 ${D}${libexecdir}/hello3
 	ln ${D}${bindir}/hello1 ${D}${libexecdir}/hello4
 
+	# We need so many hardlink copies to look for specific race conditions
+	install -d ${D}${libdir}
+	install -m 0644 libhello.a ${D}${libdir}
+	for num in `seq 1 100` ; do
+		ln ${D}${libdir}/libhello.a ${D}${libdir}/libhello-${num}.a
+	done
+
 	dd if=/dev/zero of=${D}${bindir}/sparsetest bs=1 count=0 seek=1M
 }
 
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-gdb += "gdb"
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-gdb"
 FILES:${PN}-gdb = "${bindir}/gdb.sh"
+
+PACKAGE_STRIP_STATIC = "1"
+PACKAGE_DEBUG_STATIC_SPLIT = "1"
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/package.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/package.py
index 1aa6c03f8a..38ed7173fe 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/package.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/package.py
@@ -103,11 +103,37 @@ class PackageTests(OESelftestTestCase):
 
         dest = get_bb_var('PKGDEST', 'selftest-hardlink')
         bindir = get_bb_var('bindir', 'selftest-hardlink')
+        libdir = get_bb_var('libdir', 'selftest-hardlink')
+        libexecdir = get_bb_var('libexecdir', 'selftest-hardlink')
 
         def checkfiles():
             # Recipe creates 4 hardlinked files, there is a copy in package/ and a copy in packages-split/
             # so expect 8 in total.
             self.assertEqual(os.stat(dest + "/selftest-hardlink" + bindir + "/hello1").st_nlink, 8)
+            self.assertEqual(os.stat(dest + "/selftest-hardlink" + libexecdir + "/hello3").st_nlink, 8)
+
+            # Check dbg version
+            # 2 items, a copy in both package/packages-split so 4
+            self.assertEqual(os.stat(dest + "/selftest-hardlink-dbg" + bindir + "/.debug/hello1").st_nlink, 4)
+            self.assertEqual(os.stat(dest + "/selftest-hardlink-dbg" + libexecdir + "/.debug/hello1").st_nlink, 4)
+
+            # Even though the libexecdir name is 'hello3' or 'hello4', that isn't the debug target name
+            self.assertEqual(os.path.exists(dest + "/selftest-hardlink-dbg" + libexecdir + "/.debug/hello3"), False)
+            self.assertEqual(os.path.exists(dest + "/selftest-hardlink-dbg" + libexecdir + "/.debug/hello4"), False)
+
+            # Check the staticdev libraries
+            # 101 items, a copy in both package/packages-split so 202
+            self.assertEqual(os.stat(dest + "/selftest-hardlink-staticdev" + libdir + "/libhello.a").st_nlink, 202)
+            self.assertEqual(os.stat(dest + "/selftest-hardlink-staticdev" + libdir + "/libhello-25.a").st_nlink, 202)
+            self.assertEqual(os.stat(dest + "/selftest-hardlink-staticdev" + libdir + "/libhello-50.a").st_nlink, 202)
+            self.assertEqual(os.stat(dest + "/selftest-hardlink-staticdev" + libdir + "/libhello-75.a").st_nlink, 202)
+
+            # Check static dbg
+            # 101 items, a copy in both package/packages-split so 202
+            self.assertEqual(os.stat(dest + "/selftest-hardlink-dbg" + libdir + "/.debug-static/libhello.a").st_nlink, 202)
+            self.assertEqual(os.stat(dest + "/selftest-hardlink-dbg" + libdir + "/.debug-static/libhello-25.a").st_nlink, 202)
+            self.assertEqual(os.stat(dest + "/selftest-hardlink-dbg" + libdir + "/.debug-static/libhello-50.a").st_nlink, 202)
+            self.assertEqual(os.stat(dest + "/selftest-hardlink-dbg" + libdir + "/.debug-static/libhello-75.a").st_nlink, 202)
 
             # Test a sparse file remains sparse
             sparsestat = os.stat(dest + "/selftest-hardlink" + bindir + "/sparsetest")