diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 904ac15ceb..960b15d2cb 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -164,7 +164,6 @@ CC_CHECK_FLAGS_APPEND([with_cflags], [CFLAGS], [\
         -Wundef \
         "-Wformat=2 -Wformat-security -Wformat-nonliteral" \
         -Wlogical-op \
-        -Wsign-compare \
         -Wmissing-include-dirs \
         -Wold-style-definition \
         -Wpointer-arith \