diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 709913dee8314d..8b707cda62129f 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -7961,9 +7961,6 @@ fi
   CFLAGS_NODIST="$CFLAGS_NODIST -fno-pie"
   # We want to add these no-pie flags to linking executables but not shared libraries:
   LINKCC="$LINKCC -fno-pie -no-pie"
-  # Designate the DWARF version into 4 since the LLVM-BOLT does not support DWARF5 yet.
-  CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -gdwarf-4"
-  LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -gdwarf-4"
 
   if test -n "$ac_tool_prefix"; then
   # Extract the first word of "${ac_tool_prefix}llvm-bolt", so it can be a program name with args.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 12249b2d472900..5eee4586680dbb 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1952,9 +1952,6 @@ if test "$Py_BOLT" = 'true' ; then
   CFLAGS_NODIST="$CFLAGS_NODIST -fno-pie"
   # We want to add these no-pie flags to linking executables but not shared libraries:
   LINKCC="$LINKCC -fno-pie -no-pie"
-  # Designate the DWARF version into 4 since the LLVM-BOLT does not support DWARF5 yet.
-  CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -gdwarf-4"
-  LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -gdwarf-4"
   AC_SUBST(LLVM_BOLT)
   AC_PATH_TOOL(LLVM_BOLT, llvm-bolt, '', ${llvm_path})
   if test -n "${LLVM_BOLT}" -a -x "${LLVM_BOLT}"