diff --git a/SConstruct b/SConstruct
index 119764f84..273c0e258 100644
--- a/SConstruct
+++ b/SConstruct
@@ -1594,7 +1594,7 @@ class DXXCommon(LazyObjectConstructor):
 		# gcc 4.5 silently ignores -Werror=undef.  On gcc 4.5, misuse
 		# produces a warning.  On gcc 4.7, misuse produces an error.
 		Werror = get_Werror_string(self.user_settings.CXXFLAGS)
-		self.env.Prepend(CXXFLAGS = ['-Wall', Werror + 'extra', Werror + 'missing-declarations', Werror + 'pointer-arith', Werror + 'undef', Werror + 'missing-braces', Werror + 'unused', Werror + 'format-security', Werror + 'redundant-decls'])
+		self.env.Prepend(CXXFLAGS = ['-Wall', Werror + 'extra', Werror + 'missing-declarations', Werror + 'pointer-arith', Werror + 'undef', Werror + 'missing-braces', Werror + 'unused', Werror + 'format-security', Werror + 'redundant-decls', Werror + 'vla'])
 		self.env.Append(CXXFLAGS = ['-funsigned-char'])
 		self.env.Append(CPPPATH = ['common/include', 'common/main', '.', self.user_settings.builddir])
 		self.env.Append(CPPFLAGS = SCons.Util.CLVar('-Wno-sign-compare'))