diff --git a/common.gypi b/common.gypi
index 31d6b642..e0eb76d2 100644
--- a/common.gypi
+++ b/common.gypi
@@ -152,7 +152,6 @@
           'GCC_INLINES_ARE_PRIVATE_EXTERN': 'YES',
           'GCC_SYMBOLS_PRIVATE_EXTERN': 'YES',      # -fvisibility=hidden
           'GCC_THREADSAFE_STATICS': 'NO',           # -fno-threadsafe-statics
-          'GCC_VERSION': '4.2',
           'GCC_WARN_ABOUT_MISSING_NEWLINE': 'YES',  # -Wnewline-eof
           'MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET': '10.4',       # -mmacosx-version-min=10.4
           'PREBINDING': 'NO',                       # No -Wl,-prebind