diff --git a/office/gnucash/gnucash.conf b/office/gnucash/gnucash.conf
index 63dcb1f07..9e996203c 100644
--- a/office/gnucash/gnucash.conf
+++ b/office/gnucash/gnucash.conf
@@ -17,5 +17,5 @@
 # workaround autoconf error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GCONF_SOURCE_2
 hook_add preconf 9 "autoreconf -v -I $(pkgprefix -r datadir gconf)/aclocal"
 
-var_append GCC_WRAPPER_REMOVE " " "-Werror"
-
+# disable treating compile warnings as errors
+# var_append extraconfopt ' ' '--disable-error-on-warning'