diff --git a/config/gnu-warnings/error-general b/config/gnu-warnings/error-general
index 4358b2064dc..8405c401103 100644
--- a/config/gnu-warnings/error-general
+++ b/config/gnu-warnings/error-general
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 # circumstances, so ask the compiler to treat them as errors:
 #
 -Werror=bad-function-cast
--Werror=declaration-after-statement
 -Werror=implicit-function-declaration
 -Werror=missing-declarations
 -Werror=missing-prototypes
diff --git a/config/gnu-warnings/noerror-general b/config/gnu-warnings/noerror-general
index e19014f473b..31194d3ba43 100644
--- a/config/gnu-warnings/noerror-general
+++ b/config/gnu-warnings/noerror-general
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 # circumstances, so ask the compiler to treat them as errors:
 #
 -Wbad-function-cast
--Wdeclaration-after-statement
 -Wimplicit-function-declaration
 -Wmissing-declarations
 -Wmissing-prototypes
diff --git a/release_docs/INSTALL_Warnings.txt b/release_docs/INSTALL_Warnings.txt
index 97b3f766b24..97981be5ba6 100644
--- a/release_docs/INSTALL_Warnings.txt
+++ b/release_docs/INSTALL_Warnings.txt
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ Autotools UNIX warnings added to H5_CFLAGS
     -Wcast-align
     -Wcast-qual
     -Wconversion
-    -Wdeclaration-after-statement
     -Wdisabled-optimization
     -Wfloat-equal
     -Wformat=2
@@ -291,7 +290,6 @@ IF GNU GCC
     -Wcast-align
     -Wcast-qual
     -Wconversion
-    -Wdeclaration-after-statement
     -Wdisabled-optimization
     -Wfloat-equal
     -Wformat=2