diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 3672700488..ca66216554 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ if test "x$CXXFLAGS_overridden" = "xno"; then
   AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG([-Wself-assign],[CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -Wno-self-assign"],,[[$CXXFLAG_WERROR]])
   AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG([-Wunused-local-typedef],[CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -Wno-unused-local-typedef"],,[[$CXXFLAG_WERROR]])
   AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG([-Wdeprecated-register],[CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -Wno-deprecated-register"],,[[$CXXFLAG_WERROR]])
+  AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG([-Wimplicit-fallthrough],[CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -Wno-implicit-fallthrough"],,[[$CXXFLAG_WERROR]])
 fi
 CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -DHAVE_BUILD_INFO -D__STDC_FORMAT_MACROS"