diff --git a/meta/packages/gdb/gdb-cross.inc b/meta/packages/gdb/gdb-cross.inc
index 480cce4931..c2f30da793 100644
--- a/meta/packages/gdb/gdb-cross.inc
+++ b/meta/packages/gdb/gdb-cross.inc
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ DEPENDS = "ncurses-native"
 
 EXTRA_OEMAKE = "'SUBDIRS=intl mmalloc libiberty opcodes bfd sim gdb etc utils' LDFLAGS='${BUILD_LDFLAGS}'"
 
-EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-curses --with-readline"
+EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-curses --with-readline --disable-werror"
 
 do_configure () {
 # override this function to avoid the autoconf/automake/aclocal/autoheader