diff --git a/tools/include/linux/string.h b/tools/include/linux/string.h
index 6c3e2cc274c5..0ec646f127dc 100644
--- a/tools/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/tools/include/linux/string.h
@@ -14,7 +14,15 @@ int strtobool(const char *s, bool *res);
  * However uClibc headers also define __GLIBC__ hence the hack below
  */
 #if defined(__GLIBC__) && !defined(__UCLIBC__)
+// pragma diagnostic was introduced in gcc 4.6
+#if __GNUC__ > 4 || (__GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 6)
+#pragma GCC diagnostic push
+#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wredundant-decls"
+#endif
 extern size_t strlcpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t size);
+#if __GNUC__ > 4 || (__GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 6)
+#pragma GCC diagnostic pop
+#endif
 #endif
 
 char *str_error_r(int errnum, char *buf, size_t buflen);
diff --git a/tools/lib/string.c b/tools/lib/string.c
index 93b3d4b6feac..ee0afcbdd696 100644
--- a/tools/lib/string.c
+++ b/tools/lib/string.c
@@ -95,6 +95,10 @@ int strtobool(const char *s, bool *res)
  * If libc has strlcpy() then that version will override this
  * implementation:
  */
+#ifdef __clang__
+#pragma clang diagnostic push
+#pragma clang diagnostic ignored "-Wignored-attributes"
+#endif
 size_t __weak strlcpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t size)
 {
 	size_t ret = strlen(src);
@@ -106,3 +110,6 @@ size_t __weak strlcpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t size)
 	}
 	return ret;
 }
+#ifdef __clang__
+#pragma clang diagnostic pop
+#endif