diff --git a/libappindicator.changes b/libappindicator.changes
index 91a06ec..8a2f9fc 100644
--- a/libappindicator.changes
+++ b/libappindicator.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Apr 14 10:01:22 UTC 2020 - Martin Liška <mliska@suse.cz>
+
+- Add -fcommon in order to fix boo#1164492.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Apr  9 22:02:52 UTC 2020 - Dominique Leuenberger <dleuenberger@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/libappindicator.spec b/libappindicator.spec
index 7c17fe4..2be271b 100644
--- a/libappindicator.spec
+++ b/libappindicator.spec
@@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ cp ./src/app-indicator.c ./src/app-indicator-gtk2.c
 #patch5 -p1
 
 %build
+%global optflags %{optflags} -fcommon
 # Create dummy file, to avoid dependency on gtk-doc
 echo "EXTRA_DIST = " >> gtk-doc.make
 autoreconf -vfi