diff --git a/common.gypi b/common.gypi
index d8cb5323afaf..b2a9bee2757b 100644
--- a/common.gypi
+++ b/common.gypi
@@ -190,7 +190,6 @@
           'GCC_ENABLE_PASCAL_STRINGS': 'NO',        # No -mpascal-strings
           'GCC_THREADSAFE_STATICS': 'NO',           # -fno-threadsafe-statics
           'GCC_VERSION': '4.2',
-          'GCC_WARN_ABOUT_MISSING_NEWLINE': 'YES',  # -Wnewline-eof
           'PREBINDING': 'NO',                       # No -Wl,-prebind
           'MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET': '10.5',       # -mmacosx-version-min=10.5
           'USE_HEADERMAP': 'NO',