diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index b987e08d..63bc5d7e 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -832,8 +832,14 @@ AC_C_BIGENDIAN
 
 # __attribute__((__constructor__)) can be used for one-time initializations.
 # Use -Werror because some compilers accept unknown attributes and just
-# give a warning. If it works this should give no warnings, even
-# clang -Weverything should be fine.
+# give a warning.
+#
+# FIXME? Unfortunately -Werror can cause trouble if CFLAGS contains options
+# that produce warnings for unrelated reasons. For example, GCC and Clang
+# support -Wunused-macros which will warn about "#define _GNU_SOURCE 1"
+# which will be among the #defines that Autoconf inserts to the beginning of
+# the test program. There seems to be no nice way to prevent Autoconf from
+# inserting the any defines to the test program.
 AC_MSG_CHECKING([if __attribute__((__constructor__)) can be used])
 have_func_attribute_constructor=no
 OLD_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"