diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/mraa/mraa_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/mraa/mraa_git.bb
index e702ce0ba9..403d641ee9 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/mraa/mraa_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/mraa/mraa_git.bb
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ EXTRA_OECMAKE_append = " -DINSTALLTOOLS:BOOL=ON -DFIRMATA=ON -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=
                          -DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR=${STAGING_INCDIR}/${PYTHON_DIR}${PYTHON_ABI} \
                        "
 
+CFLAGS += "-fcommon"
+
 # Prepend mraa-utils to make sure bindir ends up in there
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-utils"