diff --git a/gsoap.changes b/gsoap.changes
index 1b3903c..470af2a 100644
--- a/gsoap.changes
+++ b/gsoap.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Jan 12 22:44:42 UTC 2020 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Temporarily work around -fno-common build failure [boo#1160267].
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jan  8 16:22:13 UTC 2020 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/gsoap.spec b/gsoap.spec
index 128d76a..faf6b15 100644
--- a/gsoap.spec
+++ b/gsoap.spec
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ perl -i -lpe 's{AC_INIT\(gsoap, 2.8\)}{AC_INIT([gsoap], [%version])}' \
 # Rebuild configure - fix that utterly long mktime test.
 # Also needed because Makefile.am and configure.ac are touched.
 autoreconf -fi
-%configure --enable-ipv6 --disable-static
+%configure --enable-ipv6 --disable-static CFLAGS="%optflags -fcommon"
 pushd gsoap/src/
 # build prerequisites for parallel build first
 make soapcpp2_yacc.c