diff --git a/CMake/MiscFunctions.cmake b/CMake/MiscFunctions.cmake
index 0e95517a..0f6a9c2a 100644
--- a/CMake/MiscFunctions.cmake
+++ b/CMake/MiscFunctions.cmake
@@ -1,30 +1,3 @@
-#checks that the given hard-coded list contains all headers + sources in the given folder
-function(CheckFileList LIST_VAR FOLDER)
-  set(MESSAGE " should be added to the variable ${LIST_VAR}")
-  set(MESSAGE "${MESSAGE} in ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_FILE}\n")
-  file(GLOB GLOBBED_LIST "${FOLDER}/*.cpp"
-                         "${FOLDER}/*.hpp"
-                         "${FOLDER}/*.h")
-  list(REMOVE_ITEM GLOBBED_LIST ${${LIST_VAR}})
-  foreach(EXTRA_ITEM ${GLOBBED_LIST})
-    string(REPLACE "${CATCH_DIR}/" "" RELATIVE_FILE_NAME "${EXTRA_ITEM}")
-    message(AUTHOR_WARNING "The file \"${RELATIVE_FILE_NAME}\"${MESSAGE}")
-  endforeach()
-endfunction()
-
-function(CheckFileListRec LIST_VAR FOLDER)
-  set(MESSAGE " should be added to the variable ${LIST_VAR}")
-  set(MESSAGE "${MESSAGE} in ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_FILE}\n")
-  file(GLOB_RECURSE GLOBBED_LIST "${FOLDER}/*.cpp"
-                                 "${FOLDER}/*.hpp"
-                                 "${FOLDER}/*.h")
-  list(REMOVE_ITEM GLOBBED_LIST ${${LIST_VAR}})
-  foreach(EXTRA_ITEM ${GLOBBED_LIST})
-    string(REPLACE "${CATCH_DIR}/" "" RELATIVE_FILE_NAME "${EXTRA_ITEM}")
-    message(AUTHOR_WARNING "The file \"${RELATIVE_FILE_NAME}\"${MESSAGE}")
-  endforeach()
-endfunction()
-
 include(CheckCXXCompilerFlag)
 function(add_cxx_flag_if_supported_to_targets flagname targets)
     check_cxx_compiler_flag("${flagname}" HAVE_FLAG_${flagname})
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index 443f62b5..c5ac14d1 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -199,7 +199,6 @@ set(IMPL_SOURCES
     ${SOURCES_DIR}/internal/catch_xmlwriter.cpp
 )
 set(INTERNAL_FILES ${IMPL_SOURCES} ${INTERNAL_HEADERS})
-CheckFileList(INTERNAL_FILES ${SOURCES_DIR}/internal)
 
 # Please keep these ordered alphabetically
 set(REPORTER_HEADERS
@@ -228,7 +227,6 @@ set(REPORTER_SOURCES
     ${SOURCES_DIR}/reporters/catch_reporter_xml.cpp
 )
 set(REPORTER_FILES ${REPORTER_HEADERS} ${REPORTER_SOURCES})
-CheckFileList(REPORTER_FILES ${SOURCES_DIR}/reporters)
 
 # Fixme: STATIC because for dynamic, we would need to handle visibility
 # and I don't want to do the annotations right now
diff --git a/tests/CMakeLists.txt b/tests/CMakeLists.txt
index 3af01c62..f38ca4b9 100644
--- a/tests/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/tests/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ set(TEST_SOURCES
         ${SELF_TEST_DIR}/UsageTests/MatchersRanges.tests.cpp
         ${SELF_TEST_DIR}/UsageTests/Matchers.tests.cpp
         )
-CheckFileList(TEST_SOURCES ${SELF_TEST_DIR})
 
 
 # Specify the headers, too, so CLion recognises them as project files