diff --git a/CMake/variants/GNU.cmake b/CMake/variants/GNU.cmake
index 798df0ae31baacb9ccee7a6c91e0e4f0b481d5ed..b5efcc6114e2cc18c56d0efac06ed331e2405e32 100644
--- a/CMake/variants/GNU.cmake
+++ b/CMake/variants/GNU.cmake
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ set(GNU_C_FLAGS_DEBUG    "-g")
 set(GNU_C_FLAGS_OPT      "-g -O2")
 set(GNU_C_FLAGS_OPT3     "-g -O3")
 set(GNU_CXX_FLAGS        "-W -Wall -Woverloaded-virtual -Wno-unknown-pragmas")
-set(GNU_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG  "-g -D_GLIBCXX_DEBUG")
+set(GNU_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG  "-g")
 set(GNU_CXX_FLAGS_OPT    "-g -O2")
 set(GNU_CXX_FLAGS_OPT3   "-g -O3")
 set(GNU_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS)