-fno-common will become the default in GCC10/LLVM11. Plenty of work has been put in to make sure our world builds are no -fno-common clean, so let's slap the build with this until it becomes the compiler default to ensure we don't regress. At this time, we will not be enforcing -fno-common on ports builds. I suspect most ports will be or quickly become -fno-common clean as they're naturally built against compilers that default to it, so this will hopefully become a non-issue in due time. The exception to this, which is actually the status quo, is that kmods built from ports will continue to build with -fno-common. As of the time of writing, I intend to also make stable/12 -fno-common clean. What's been done will be MFC'd to stable/11 if it's easily applicable and/or not much work to massage it into being functional, but I anticipate adding -fcommon to stable/11 builds to maintain its ability to be built with newer compilers for the rest of its lifetime instead of putting in a third branch's worth of effort.
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