diff --git a/Modules/DiffusionImaging/DiffusionCore/CMakeLists.txt b/Modules/DiffusionImaging/DiffusionCore/CMakeLists.txt
index 35a29c518f..9e6b9a43fb 100644
--- a/Modules/DiffusionImaging/DiffusionCore/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Modules/DiffusionImaging/DiffusionCore/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,10 +1,14 @@
+# With apple gcc 4.2.1 the following waring leads to an build error if boost is enabled
+if(APPLE)
+  mitkFunctionCheckCAndCXXCompilerFlags("-Wno-error=empty-body" CMAKE_C_FLAGS CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS)
+endif()
 
 MITK_CREATE_MODULE(
   SUBPROJECTS MITK-DTI
   INCLUDE_DIRS Algorithms Algorithms/Reconstruction Algorithms/Registration Algorithms/Reconstruction/MultishellProcessing DicomImport IODataStructures/DiffusionWeightedImages IODataStructures/QBallImages IODataStructures/TensorImages IODataStructures Rendering ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}
   DEPENDS MitkMapperExt MitkPlanarFigure MitkImageExtraction MitkSceneSerializationBase
   PACKAGE_DEPENDS VTK|vtkFiltersProgrammable ITK|ITKDistanceMap+ITKRegistrationCommon+ITKLabelVoting+ITKVTK Boost
   WARNINGS_AS_ERRORS
 )
 
 add_subdirectory(Testing)
diff --git a/Modules/DiffusionImaging/Quantification/CMakeLists.txt b/Modules/DiffusionImaging/Quantification/CMakeLists.txt
index 434d7cdf06..4c677be959 100644
--- a/Modules/DiffusionImaging/Quantification/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Modules/DiffusionImaging/Quantification/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
+# With apple gcc 4.2.1 the following waring leads to an build error if boost is enabled
+if(APPLE)
+  mitkFunctionCheckCAndCXXCompilerFlags("-Wno-error=empty-body" CMAKE_C_FLAGS CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS)
+endif()
+
 #DiffusionImaging/Quantification
 MITK_CREATE_MODULE(
   SUBPROJECTS MITK-DTI
   INCLUDE_DIRS Algorithms IODataStructures IODataStructures/TbssImages Rendering ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}
   DEPENDS MitkDiffusionCore MitkFiberTracking MitkGraphAlgorithms
   WARNINGS_AS_ERRORS
 )
 
 add_subdirectory(Testing)