diff --git a/config/mh-cygwin32 b/config/mh-cygwin32
index 2d7035ec11..29d4bc6828 100644
--- a/config/mh-cygwin32
+++ b/config/mh-cygwin32
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 # Accomplish this by overriding CFLAGS.
 CFLAGS=-O2
 
+# We also need to override LIBGCC2_DEBUG_CFLAGS so libgcc2 will be
+# build without debugging information
+
+LIBGCC2_DEBUG_CFLAGS=
+
 # We set MAKEINFOFLAGS to not split .info files, because the resulting
 # file names don't work on DOS.
 MAKEINFOFLAGS=--no-split