diff --git a/app-utils/the-silver-searcher/autobuild/prepare b/app-utils/the-silver-searcher/autobuild/prepare
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..00dcc5f526ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-utils/the-silver-searcher/autobuild/prepare
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+abinfo "Appending -fcommon to fix build with GCC >= 10 ..."
+export CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fcommon"
diff --git a/app-utils/the-silver-searcher/spec b/app-utils/the-silver-searcher/spec
index 923aa4d3f8ef..d04b12276207 100644
--- a/app-utils/the-silver-searcher/spec
+++ b/app-utils/the-silver-searcher/spec
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 VER=2.2.0
+REL=1
 SRCS="tbl::https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/archive/$VER.tar.gz"
 CHKSUMS="sha256::6a0a19ca5e73b2bef9481c29a508d2413ca1a0a9a5a6b1bd9bbd695a7626cbf9"
 CHKUPDATE="anitya::id=15263"