diff --git a/BUILD b/BUILD
index ad85b202..89e17443 100644
--- a/BUILD
+++ b/BUILD
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ exports_files([
 
 CPPOPTS = [
     # copybara:strip_for_google3_begin
-    "-Werror",
+    "-w",
     "-Wno-long-long",
     # copybara:strip_end
 ]