diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-configure-common.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-configure-common.inc
index b87ea62570..dc44cc9f08 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-configure-common.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-configure-common.inc
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = "${@['--enable-clocale=generic', ''][d.getVar('USE_NLS', True) !=
                 ${@get_gcc_mips_plt_setting(bb, d)} \
                 ${@get_gcc_multiarch_setting(bb, d)}"
 
+export ac_cv_path_SED = 'sed'
 export gcc_cv_collect2_libs = 'none required'
 # We need to set gcc_cv_collect2_libs else there is cross-compilation badness
 # in the config.log files (which might not get generated until do_compile
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.inc
index 92e49499dd..5a67eeb9d1 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.inc
@@ -26,9 +26,6 @@ SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/libtool/libtool-${PV}.tar.gz \
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "d2f3b7d4627e69e13514a40e72a24d50"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "b38de44862a987293cd3d8dfae1c409d514b6c4e794ebc93648febf9afc38918"
 
-# Don't want paths to sed-native (or anything else) encoded
-CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "ac_cv_path_SED=sed"
-
 do_compile_prepend () {
 	# Sometimes this file doesn't get rebuilt, force the issue
 	rm -f ${S}/libltdl/config/ltmain.sh
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/libtool/libtool-native_2.4.2.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/libtool/libtool-native_2.4.2.bb
index 18188ef7f3..df73f08e99 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/libtool/libtool-native_2.4.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/libtool/libtool-native_2.4.2.bb
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ SRC_URI += "file://prefix.patch"
 inherit native
 
 EXTRA_OECONF = " --with-libtool-sysroot=${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}"
-CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "ac_cv_path_SED=/bin/sed"
 
 do_configure_prepend () {
 	# Remove any existing libtool m4 since old stale versions would break
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-native_5.14.3.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-native_5.14.3.bb
index 9f0b8a1c19..c9ec2d2655 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-native_5.14.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-native_5.14.3.bb
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ do_configure () {
 		-Di_syslog \
 		-Duseperlio \
 		-Dman3ext=3pm \
+		-Dsed=/bin/sed \
 		-Uafs \
 		-Ud_csh \
 		-Uusesfio \
diff --git a/meta/site/common b/meta/site/common
index 1214a13515..5ccc14f8c9 100644
--- a/meta/site/common
+++ b/meta/site/common
@@ -17,3 +17,5 @@ shadow_cv_passwd_dir=${bindir}
 
 # python: deactivate a runtime check for ipv6-support in python >=2.7.1 that fails when cross-compiling
 ac_cv_buggy_getaddrinfo=no
+
+ac_cv_path_SED=sed