diff --git a/scripts/genie.lua b/scripts/genie.lua
index c479fe34bfd..99af9794ed9 100644
--- a/scripts/genie.lua
+++ b/scripts/genie.lua
@@ -1098,6 +1098,7 @@ end
 					"-Wno-unused-result", -- needed for fgets,fread on linux
 					-- array bounds checking seems to be buggy in 4.8.1 (try it on video/stvvdp1.c and video/model1.c without -Wno-array-bounds)
 					"-Wno-array-bounds",
+					"-Wno-attributes", -- GCC fails to recognize some uses of [[maybe_unused]]
 				}
 			if (version >= 80000) then
 				buildoptions {