diff --git a/app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher/speech-dispatcher-0.8.3.ebuild b/app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher/speech-dispatcher-0.8.3.ebuild
index 3725e90a4d36c..2c177405d33ea 100644
--- a/app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher/speech-dispatcher-0.8.3.ebuild
+++ b/app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher/speech-dispatcher-0.8.3.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=5
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ DEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
 	dev-python/pyxdg"
 
 src_configure() {
+	# bug 573732
+	export GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES="${WORKDIR}"
+
 	local myeconfargs=(
 		--disable-python
 		$(use_enable static-libs static)
diff --git a/app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher/speech-dispatcher-0.8.7.ebuild b/app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher/speech-dispatcher-0.8.7.ebuild
index 22d52defd6d65..d6b4819cee3a4 100644
--- a/app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher/speech-dispatcher-0.8.7.ebuild
+++ b/app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher/speech-dispatcher-0.8.7.ebuild
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ RDEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
 	dev-python/pyxdg"
 
 src_configure() {
+	# bug 573732
+	export GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES="${WORKDIR}"
+
 	local myeconfargs=(
 		--disable-python
 		$(use_enable static-libs static)