diff --git a/emacs/.emacs.d/init.el b/emacs/.emacs.d/init.el
index 35c388f1d..2b99f0d96 100644
--- a/emacs/.emacs.d/init.el
+++ b/emacs/.emacs.d/init.el
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+;; This suppresses the warning about Emacs 27 deprecating the cl library in
+;; favor of cl-lib.
+;; See this thread for more details:
+;; https://github.com/kiwanami/emacs-epc/issues/35
+(setq byte-compile-warnings '(cl-functions))
+
 ;; load order is intentional
 (require 'wpc-package)
 (require 'wpc-misc)