diff --git a/app-shells/bash/bash-5.1_p16-r10.ebuild b/app-shells/bash/bash-5.1_p16-r10.ebuild
index 2f4a6284d0a03..9141fddae28ef 100644
--- a/app-shells/bash/bash-5.1_p16-r10.ebuild
+++ b/app-shells/bash/bash-5.1_p16-r10.ebuild
@@ -88,6 +88,12 @@ BDEPEND="
 # EAPI 8 tries to append it but it doesn't exist here.
 QA_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS="--disable-static"
 
+QA_CONFIG_IMPL_DECL_SKIP+=(
+	# this is fixed in autoconf 2.71, used in bash 5.2. The check fails
+	# regardless of GCC version. bug #916480
+	makedev
+)
+
 PATCHES=(
 	#"${WORKDIR}"/${PN}-${GENTOO_PATCH_VER}/
 
diff --git a/app-shells/bash/bash-5.1_p16-r6.ebuild b/app-shells/bash/bash-5.1_p16-r6.ebuild
index 7af661f690f83..488dbff0dc941 100644
--- a/app-shells/bash/bash-5.1_p16-r6.ebuild
+++ b/app-shells/bash/bash-5.1_p16-r6.ebuild
@@ -96,6 +96,12 @@ BDEPEND="sys-devel/bison
 
 S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
 
+QA_CONFIG_IMPL_DECL_SKIP+=(
+	# this is fixed in autoconf 2.71, used in bash 5.2. The check fails
+	# regardless of GCC version. bug #916480
+	makedev
+)
+
 PATCHES=(
 	# Patches from Chet sent to bashbug ml
 	"${WORKDIR}"/${PN}-${GENTOO_PATCH_VER}-patches/${PN}-5.0-syslog-history-extern.patch