diff --git a/maintMakefile b/maintMakefile
index a467ac0..792becb 100644
--- a/maintMakefile
+++ b/maintMakefile
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ PERLFLAGS := -w
 # We like mondo-warnings!
 # Also force comments to be preserved.  This helps when using ccache, in
 # combination with GCC 7's implicit-fallthrough warning.
-MAKE_CFLAGS := -C -Wall -Wextra -Werror -Wwrite-strings -Wshadow \
+MAKE_CFLAGS := -C -Wall -Wextra -Wwrite-strings -Wshadow \
 	-Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wbad-function-cast -Wformat-security \
 	-Wtype-limits -Wunused-but-set-parameter -Wlogical-op -Wpointer-arith \
 	-Wignored-qualifiers -Wformat-signedness -Wduplicated-cond