Comment # 1 on bug 1160295 from Lee Duncan

Well, sysfsutils certainly has issues, as nobody is maintaining it upstream at
all, and now evidently I own it in SUSE.

None of the issues, though, have to do with "-fno-common".

Never the less, I submitted upstream all of my changes to fix all build issues,
but I suspect the pull request will just sit.

I will give it a week or so, and if no response there I will just fix the SUSE
package(s) with a patch.

But, to do this correctly, somebody should fork that package upstream and
maintain the changes there.