diff --git a/sbl.changes b/sbl.changes
index c23ee3f..8599650 100644
--- a/sbl.changes
+++ b/sbl.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Mar 31 11:58:31 UTC 2020 - Martin Liška <mliska@suse.cz>
+
+- Add -fcommon in order to fix boo#1160415.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Mar 29 09:07:59 UTC 2019 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/sbl.spec b/sbl.spec
index 04bcb6a..afeb854 100644
--- a/sbl.spec
+++ b/sbl.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package sbl
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2019 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2020 SUSE LLC
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -68,8 +68,8 @@ this python module enables orca to use brld for braille output
 %patch7 -p1
 
 %build
-make %{?_smp_mflags} CFLAGS="%{optflags} -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=2 -D_BSD_SOURCE" \
-	LIB_CFLAGS="%{optflags} -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=2 -D_BSD_SOURCE -fPIC $(pkg-config speech-dispatcher --cflags)"
+make %{?_smp_mflags} CFLAGS="%{optflags} -fcommon -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=2 -D_BSD_SOURCE" \
+	LIB_CFLAGS="%{optflags} -fcommon -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=2 -D_BSD_SOURCE -fPIC $(pkg-config speech-dispatcher --cflags)"
 
 %install
 %make_install LIBINSTPATH=%{_libdir}