diff --git a/srcpkgs/neverball/template b/srcpkgs/neverball/template
index a1bd78d3203..9743e97086d 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/neverball/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/neverball/template
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ distfiles="http://www.neverball.org/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
 checksum=73fe63cca4f96e2d355480d03bc0b2904e83a0abdf65fe8c52db5cc3cca88fa0
 nocross="./mapc: ./mapc: cannot execute binary file"
 
+CFLAGS="-fcommon"
+
 do_build() {
 	make ${makejobs} CFLAGS="$CFLAGS" LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS" \
 		ENABLE_NLS=1 DATADIR=/usr/share/neverball LOCALEDIR=/usr/share/locale