diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 384a6ad945..110be9ae7e 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -5326,6 +5326,7 @@ elif enabled gcc; then
     check_cflags -Werror=return-type
     check_cflags -Werror=vla
     check_cflags -Wformat
+    check_cflags -fdiagnostics-color=auto
     enabled extra_warnings || check_disable_warning -Wno-maybe-uninitialized
 elif enabled llvm_gcc; then
     check_cflags -mllvm -stack-alignment=16