diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/autogen/autogen-native_5.18.12.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/autogen/autogen-native_5.18.12.bb
index 0004389b11..853477cf7c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/autogen/autogen-native_5.18.12.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/autogen/autogen-native_5.18.12.bb
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/autogen/rel${PV}/autogen-${PV}.tar.gz \
            file://mk-tpl-config.sh-force-exit-value-to-be-0-in-subproc.patch \
            file://fix-script-err-when-processing-libguile.patch \
            file://0001-config-libopts.m4-regenerate-it-from-config-libopts..patch \
+           file://0002-autoopts-mk-tpl-config.sh-fix-perl-path.patch \
 "
 
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "551d15ccbf5b5fc5658da375d5003389"
@@ -30,6 +31,8 @@ inherit autotools texinfo native pkgconfig
 export GUILE_LOAD_PATH = "${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/guile/2.0"
 export GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH = "${STAGING_LIBDIR_NATIVE}/guile/2.0/ccache"
 
+export POSIX_SHELL = "/usr/bin/env sh"
+
 do_install_append () {
 	create_wrapper ${D}/${bindir}/autogen \
 		GUILE_LOAD_PATH=${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/guile/2.0 \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/autogen/autogen/0002-autoopts-mk-tpl-config.sh-fix-perl-path.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/autogen/autogen/0002-autoopts-mk-tpl-config.sh-fix-perl-path.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d5fe143ce4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/autogen/autogen/0002-autoopts-mk-tpl-config.sh-fix-perl-path.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+From 9f69f3f5ef22bf1bcffb0e651efc260889cfaa46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>
+Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 20:33:30 -0700
+Subject: [PATCH] autoopts/mk-tpl-config.sh: fix perl path
+
+Use "which perl" as shebang doesn't work when it is longer than
+BINPRM_BUF_SIZE which is 128 usually. So use "/usr/bin/env perl" to
+instead of.
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+
+Signed-off-by: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>
+---
+ autoopts/mk-tpl-config.sh | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/autoopts/mk-tpl-config.sh b/autoopts/mk-tpl-config.sh
+index 093e808..8dfc6dd 100755
+--- a/autoopts/mk-tpl-config.sh
++++ b/autoopts/mk-tpl-config.sh
+@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ fix_scripts() {
+         st=`sed 1q $f`
+ 
+         case "$st" in
+-        *perl ) echo '#!' `which perl`
++        *perl ) echo '#!/usr/bin/env perl'
+                  sed 1d $f
+                  ;;
+ 
+-- 
+2.10.2
+