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.