diff --git a/science/hdf5/Portfile b/science/hdf5/Portfile
index 7fd7fd2923ad9..7646baddf3bf1 100644
--- a/science/hdf5/Portfile
+++ b/science/hdf5/Portfile
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ use_bzip2           yes
 depends_lib         port:zlib port:libaec
 use_parallel_build  yes
 
-patchfiles          patch-tools-src-misc-h5cc.in.diff
+patchfiles          patch-no-commons.diff \
+                    patch-tools-src-misc-h5cc.in.diff
 
 # llvm-gcc-4.2 produced code fails type conversion tests
 # Upstream suggestion is use -O0. Clang-produced code passes all tests.
diff --git a/science/hdf5/files/patch-no-commons.diff b/science/hdf5/files/patch-no-commons.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..b4400b0ed490f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/science/hdf5/files/patch-no-commons.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+--- configure.orig	2023-08-10 16:57:56.000000000 -0600
++++ configure	2023-09-22 23:08:25.000000000 -0600
+@@ -11228,14 +11228,6 @@
+   { printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking if shared Fortran libraries are supported" >&5
+ printf %s "checking if shared Fortran libraries are supported... " >&6; }
+   H5_FORTRAN_SHARED="yes"
+-  ## tell libtool to do the right thing with COMMON symbols, this fixes
+-  ## corrupt values with COMMON and EQUIVALENCE when building shared
+-  ## Fortran libraries on OSX with gnu and Intel compilers (HDFFV-2772).
+-  case "`uname`" in
+-    Darwin*)
+-    H5_LDFLAGS="$H5_LDFLAGS -Wl,-commons,use_dylibs"
+-    ;;
+-  esac
+ 
+   ## Report results of check(s)
+