diff --git a/common.gypi b/common.gypi
index a3f5d6132ac6..984c1dd86edc 100644
--- a/common.gypi
+++ b/common.gypi
@@ -110,13 +110,22 @@
         ],
       }],
       ['_target_name.startswith("breakpad") or _target_name in ["crash_report_sender", "dump_syms"]', {
-        'xcode_settings': {
-          'WARNING_CFLAGS': [
-            '-Wno-deprecated-declarations',
-            '-Wno-unused-private-field',
-            '-Wno-unused-function',
-          ],
-        },
+        'conditions': [
+          ['OS=="mac"', {
+            'xcode_settings': {
+              'WARNING_CFLAGS': [
+                '-Wno-deprecated-declarations',
+                '-Wno-unused-private-field',
+                '-Wno-unused-function',
+              ],
+            },
+          }],  # OS=="mac"
+          ['OS=="linux"', {
+            'cflags': [
+              '-Wno-empty-body',
+            ],
+          }],  # OS=="linux"
+        ],
       }],
     ],
     'msvs_cygwin_shell': 0, # Strangely setting it to 1 would make building under cygwin fail.