diff --git a/ext/curl/interface.c b/ext/curl/interface.c
index 4fc0415e78757..36300dacfcfba 100644
--- a/ext/curl/interface.c
+++ b/ext/curl/interface.c
@@ -62,6 +62,12 @@
 #include "curl_private.h"
 #include "curl_arginfo.h"
 
+#ifdef __GNUC__
+/* don't complain about deprecated CURLOPT_* we're exposing to PHP; we
+   need to keep using those to avoid breaking PHP API compatibiltiy */
+# pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wdeprecated-declarations"
+#endif
+
 #ifdef PHP_CURL_NEED_OPENSSL_TSL /* {{{ */
 static MUTEX_T *php_curl_openssl_tsl = NULL;