diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b3b2775..4163147 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -296,9 +296,7 @@ class CustomBuildExt(build_ext):
                 e.extra_compile_args.append("-Wno-unused-variable") # quell some annoying warnings
                 e.extra_compile_args.append("-Wno-unused-function") # quell some annoying warnings
                 e.extra_compile_args.append("-Wdeclaration-after-statement")
-                p = platform.linux_distribution()
-                if not (p[0] == 'CentOS' and p[1][0] == '5'):
-                    e.extra_compile_args.append("-Werror=declaration-after-statement")
+                e.extra_compile_args.append("-Werror=declaration-after-statement")
 
 
         # build in place, and in the build/ tree