diff --git a/configure b/configure
index a89639db76..b68e0db4bb 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -5066,8 +5066,8 @@ elif enabled ccc; then
     add_cflags -msg_disable unsupieee
 elif enabled gcc; then
     check_optflags -fno-tree-vectorize
-    check_cflags -Werror=implicit-function-declaration
     check_cflags -Werror=format-security
+    check_cflags -Werror=implicit-function-declaration
     check_cflags -Werror=missing-prototypes
     check_cflags -Werror=return-type
     check_cflags -Werror=vla