diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 670d3bf7..f005f19d 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1064,7 +1064,6 @@ if test "$GCC" = yes ; then
 			-Wold-style-definition \
 			-Wmissing-prototypes \
 			-Wmissing-declarations \
-			-Wmissing-noreturn \
 			-Wredundant-decls \
 			\
 			-Wc99-compat \