diff --git a/docs/reference/glib/glib-sections.txt b/docs/reference/glib/glib-sections.txt
index 6533764e1..efb261bfd 100644
--- a/docs/reference/glib/glib-sections.txt
+++ b/docs/reference/glib/glib-sections.txt
@@ -738,6 +738,7 @@ G_HAVE_GNUC_VARARGS
 G_HAVE_ISO_VARARGS
 G_HAVE_GROWING_STACK
 G_VA_COPY_AS_ARRAY
+GLIB_CANNOT_IGNORE_DEPRECATIONS
 GLIB_DEPRECATED
 GLIB_DEPRECATED_FOR
 GLIB_UNAVAILABLE
diff --git a/glib/gmacros.h b/glib/gmacros.h
index 27c2c48ac..7fc34d59d 100644
--- a/glib/gmacros.h
+++ b/glib/gmacros.h
@@ -720,6 +720,7 @@
 #else
 #define G_GNUC_BEGIN_IGNORE_DEPRECATIONS
 #define G_GNUC_END_IGNORE_DEPRECATIONS
+#define GLIB_CANNOT_IGNORE_DEPRECATIONS
 #endif
 
 /**
@@ -1090,7 +1091,14 @@
 #define G_UNLIKELY(expr) (expr)
 #endif
 
-#if G_GNUC_CHECK_VERSION(3, 1) || defined(__clang__)
+/* GLIB_CANNOT_IGNORE_DEPRECATIONS is defined above for compilers that do not
+ * have a way to temporarily suppress deprecation warnings. In these cases,
+ * suppress the deprecated attribute altogether (otherwise a simple #include
+ * <glib.h> will emit a barrage of warnings).
+ */
+#if defined(GLIB_CANNOT_IGNORE_DEPRECATIONS)
+#define G_DEPRECATED
+#elif G_GNUC_CHECK_VERSION(3, 1) || defined(__clang__)
 #define G_DEPRECATED __attribute__((__deprecated__))
 #elif defined(_MSC_VER) && (_MSC_VER >= 1300)
 #define G_DEPRECATED __declspec(deprecated)
@@ -1098,7 +1106,9 @@
 #define G_DEPRECATED
 #endif
 
-#if G_GNUC_CHECK_VERSION(4, 5) || defined(__clang__)
+#if defined(GLIB_CANNOT_IGNORE_DEPRECATIONS)
+#define G_DEPRECATED_FOR(f) G_DEPRECATED
+#elif G_GNUC_CHECK_VERSION(4, 5) || defined(__clang__)
 #define G_DEPRECATED_FOR(f) __attribute__((__deprecated__("Use '" #f "' instead")))
 #elif defined(_MSC_FULL_VER) && (_MSC_FULL_VER > 140050320)
 #define G_DEPRECATED_FOR(f) __declspec(deprecated("is deprecated. Use '" #f "' instead"))