diff --git a/bash.spec b/bash.spec
index 04019ee8fc4389517e924f38f7d3094d5b08ab46..da76c36f04239f42b069769660a6d0cabbaab87d 100644
--- a/bash.spec
+++ b/bash.spec
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 Name:     bash
 Version:  5.2.37
-Release:  7
+Release:  8
 Summary:  It is the Bourne Again Shell
 License:  GPL-3.0-or-later
 URL:      https://www.gnu.org/software/bash
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ Man pages and other related documents for %{name}.
 %build
 autoconf
 %configure --with-bash-malloc=no --with-afs
-MFLAGS="CPPFLAGS=-D_GNU_SOURCE -DRECYCLES_PIDS -DDEFAULT_PATH_VALUE='\"/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin\"' `getconf LFS_CFLAGS`"
+MFLAGS="CPPFLAGS=-D_GNU_SOURCE -DRECYCLES_PIDS -DDEFAULT_PATH_VALUE='\"/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin\"' `getconf LFS_CFLAGS` -Wno-error=return-mismatch"
 make "$MFLAGS" version.h
 make "$MFLAGS" -C builtins
 %make_build "$MFLAGS"
@@ -175,6 +175,9 @@ make check
 %exclude %{_infodir}/dir
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Sep 16 2025 jchzhou <zhoujiacheng@iscas.ac.cn> - 5.2.37-8
+- add a workaround for building issues with newer compilers
+
 * Tue Sep 16 2025 fuanan <fuanan3@h-partners.com> - 5.2.37-7
 - fix issue with history file containing one line too few if saving timestamps