diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 309d3f78..11ebac44 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -34,11 +34,6 @@ if test "x$PKG_CONFIG_INSTALLED" = "xno"; then
 fi
 PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG([0.20])
 
-dnl check for AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG
-m4_ifdef([AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG], [], [
-	AC_MSG_ERROR([Please install autoconf-archive; re-run 'autoreconf -fi' for it to take effect.])
-	])
-
 dnl use a defined standard across all builds and don't depend on compiler default
 CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -std=gnu11"
 
@@ -105,13 +100,6 @@ AC_SUBST(SYMBOL_VISIBILITY)
 CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -Wall -Wno-trigraphs"
 CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wall -Wno-trigraphs"
 
-AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG([-Werror=implicit], [CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Werror=implicit"])
-AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG([-Werror=maybe-uninitialized], [CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Werror=maybe-uninitialized"])
-AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG([-Werror=memset-transposed-args], [CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Werror=memset-transposed-args"])
-AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG([-Wnull-dereference], [CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wnull-dereference"])
-AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG([-Werror=sizeof-array-argument], [CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Werror=sizeof-array-argument"])
-AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG([-Werror=sizeof-pointer-memaccess], [CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Werror=sizeof-pointer-memaccess"])
-
 # Coverage build taken from WebKit's configure.in
 AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether to enable code coverage support])
 AC_ARG_ENABLE(coverage,