diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 54da5cd51ce..f76d9981bd5 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ CONFIG_SHELL := $(shell if [ -x "$$BASH" ]; then echo $$BASH; \
 HOSTCC       = cc
 HOSTCXX      = c++
 HOSTCFLAGS   = -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer \
-		$(if $(CONFIG_TOOLS_DEBUG),-g)
+		$(if $(CONFIG_TOOLS_DEBUG),-g) -Wno-stringop-truncation
 HOSTCXXFLAGS = -O2
 
 # With the move to GCC 6, we have implicitly upgraded our language