diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f8e7d871e..5b7898cc7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2013-08-21  Ilya Bakulin <Ilya_Bakulin@genua.de>
+
+	* configure.ac: Remove -Wempty-body. It's not essential and needs
+	recent gcc.
+
 2013-08-21  Ilya Bakulin <Ilya_Bakulin@genua.de>
 
 	* grub-core/kern/emu/hostdisk.c: Add conditionals for OpenBSD.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index cca12b308..83a2fa5e6 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ LDFLAGS="$TARGET_LDFLAGS"
 LIBS=""
 
 # debug flags.
-WARN_FLAGS="-Wall -W -Wshadow -Wold-style-definition -Wpointer-arith -Wundef -Wextra -Waddress -Wattributes -Wcast-align -Wchar-subscripts -Wcomment -Wdeprecated-declarations -Wdisabled-optimization -Wdiv-by-zero -Wempty-body -Wendif-labels -Wfloat-equal -Wformat-extra-args -Wformat-security -Wformat-y2k -Wimplicit -Wimplicit-function-declaration -Wimplicit-int -Winit-self -Wint-to-pointer-cast -Winvalid-pch -Wmain -Wmissing-braces -Wmissing-field-initializers -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wmissing-noreturn -Wmultichar -Wnonnull -Woverflow -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wpointer-to-int-cast -Wreturn-type -Wsequence-point -Wshadow -Wsign-compare -Wstrict-aliasing -Wswitch -Wtrigraphs -Wundef -Wunknown-pragmas -Wunused -Wunused-function -Wunused-label -Wunused-parameter -Wunused-value  -Wunused-variable -Wvariadic-macros -Wvolatile-register-var -Wwrite-strings -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wpointer-sign"
+WARN_FLAGS="-Wall -W -Wshadow -Wold-style-definition -Wpointer-arith -Wundef -Wextra -Waddress -Wattributes -Wcast-align -Wchar-subscripts -Wcomment -Wdeprecated-declarations -Wdisabled-optimization -Wdiv-by-zero -Wendif-labels -Wfloat-equal -Wformat-extra-args -Wformat-security -Wformat-y2k -Wimplicit -Wimplicit-function-declaration -Wimplicit-int -Winit-self -Wint-to-pointer-cast -Winvalid-pch -Wmain -Wmissing-braces -Wmissing-field-initializers -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wmissing-noreturn -Wmultichar -Wnonnull -Woverflow -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wpointer-to-int-cast -Wreturn-type -Wsequence-point -Wshadow -Wsign-compare -Wstrict-aliasing -Wswitch -Wtrigraphs -Wundef -Wunknown-pragmas -Wunused -Wunused-function -Wunused-label -Wunused-parameter -Wunused-value  -Wunused-variable -Wvariadic-macros -Wvolatile-register-var -Wwrite-strings -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wpointer-sign"
 HOST_CFLAGS="$HOST_CFLAGS $WARN_FLAGS"
 TARGET_CFLAGS="$TARGET_CFLAGS $WARN_FLAGS -g -Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations"
 TARGET_CCASFLAGS="$TARGET_CCASFLAGS -g"