diff --git a/libsepol.changes b/libsepol.changes
index 9d0c201..06e385a 100644
--- a/libsepol.changes
+++ b/libsepol.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Apr 27 19:35:18 UTC 2020 - Martin Liška <mliska@suse.cz>
+
+- Enable -fcommon in order to fix boo#1160874.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Mar  3 12:17:04 UTC 2020 - Johannes Segitz <jsegitz@suse.de>
 
diff --git a/libsepol.spec b/libsepol.spec
index 138d97a..53727d9 100644
--- a/libsepol.spec
+++ b/libsepol.spec
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ policies.
 
 %build
 %define _lto_cflags %{nil}
+%global optflags %{optflags} -fcommon
 export CFLAGS="%{optflags}"
 make %{?_smp_mflags}