diff --git a/mkspecs/features/qt_common.prf b/mkspecs/features/qt_common.prf
index 27dfb7adcb6..3c5d4b9dd65 100644
--- a/mkspecs/features/qt_common.prf
+++ b/mkspecs/features/qt_common.prf
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ warnings_are_errors:warning_clean {
         # Regular clang is not tested
         ver = $${QT_APPLE_CLANG_MAJOR_VERSION}.$${QT_APPLE_CLANG_MINOR_VERSION}
         contains(ver, "4\\.[012]") {
-            QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += -Werror -Wno-error=\\$${LITERAL_HASH}warnings $$WERROR
+            QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += -Werror -Wno-error=\\$${LITERAL_HASH}warnings -Wno-error=deprecated $$WERROR
         }
     } else:intel_icc:linux {
         # Intel CC 13.0 - 14.0, on Linux only
@@ -37,15 +37,16 @@ warnings_are_errors:warning_clean {
             # 177: function "entity" was declared but never referenced
             #      (too aggressive; ICC reports even for functions created due to template instantiation)
             # 1224: #warning directive
+            # 1478: function "entity" (declared at line N) was declared deprecated
             # 1881: argument must be a constant null pointer value
             #      (NULL in C++ is usually a literal 0)
-            QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += -Werror -ww177,1224,1881 $$WERROR
+            QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += -Werror -ww177,1224,1478,1881 $$WERROR
         }
     } else:gcc:!clang:!intel_icc {
         # GCC 4.6-4.8
         ver = $${QT_GCC_MAJOR_VERSION}.$${QT_GCC_MINOR_VERSION}
         contains(ver, "4\\.[678]") {
-            QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += -Werror -Wno-error=cpp $$WERROR
+            QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += -Werror -Wno-error=cpp -Wno-error=deprecated $$WERROR
 
             # GCC prints this bogus warning, after it has inlined a lot of code
             # error: assuming signed overflow does not occur when assuming that (X + c) < X is always false