diff --git a/link-with-fno-common.patch b/link-with-fno-common.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5cf99de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/link-with-fno-common.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+From 29a5ce5f65d04b046271fbe53850836c77bbee80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: thermitegod <thermitethegod@gmail.com>
+Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 18:12:00 -0700
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix compiling with -fno-common
+
+---
+ include/sway/server.h | 4 ++--
+ sway/main.c           | 1 +
+ 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/include/sway/server.h b/include/sway/server.h
+index 5b34852ca..2e8e46339 100644
+--- a/include/sway/server.h
++++ b/include/sway/server.h
+@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ struct sway_server {
+ 	list_t *dirty_nodes;
+ };
+ 
+-struct sway_server server;
++extern struct sway_server server;
+ 
+ struct sway_debug {
+ 	bool noatomic;         // Ignore atomic layout updates
+@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ struct sway_debug {
+ 	} damage;
+ };
+ 
+-struct sway_debug debug;
++extern struct sway_debug debug;
+ 
+ /* Prepares an unprivileged server_init by performing all privileged operations in advance */
+ bool server_privileged_prepare(struct sway_server *server);
+diff --git a/sway/main.c b/sway/main.c
+index 2cc69dfb5..e0af4a799 100644
+--- a/sway/main.c
++++ b/sway/main.c
+@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
+ static bool terminate_request = false;
+ static int exit_value = 0;
+ struct sway_server server = {0};
++struct sway_debug debug = {0};
+ 
+ void sway_terminate(int exit_code) {
+ 	if (!server.wl_display) {
diff --git a/sway.spec b/sway.spec
index 8c4622f..25b8690 100644
--- a/sway.spec
+++ b/sway.spec
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 Name:           sway
 Version:        1.4
-Release:        1%{?dist}
+Release:        2%{?dist}
 Summary:        i3-compatible window manager for Wayland
 License:        MIT
 URL:            https://github.com/swaywm/sway
 Source0:        %{url}/releases/download/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+Patch1:         https://github.com/swaywm/sway/commit/29a5ce5f65d04b046271fbe53850836c77bbee80.patch#/link-with-fno-common.patch
 
 # FIXME: wlroots require `pkgconfig(egl)`, but assumes mesa provides it
 # (and uses it's extension header `<EGL/eglmesaext.h>).
@@ -93,6 +94,9 @@ sed -i "s|^output \* bg .*|output * bg /usr/share/backgrounds/f%{fedora}/default
 %{_datadir}/backgrounds/sway
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Feb 07 2020 Jan Staněk <jstanek@redhat.com> - 1.4-2
+- Apply upstream patch to allow compiling with -fno-common flag
+
 * Thu Feb 06 2020 Joe Walker <grumpey0@gmail.com> 1.4-1
 - Update to 1.4
 - Added Build requires to pull in mesa-libEGL-devel manually