diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/quilt/quilt-0.61.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/quilt/quilt-0.61.inc
index f751ac83f3..19966c8389 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/quilt/quilt-0.61.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/quilt/quilt-0.61.inc
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ RDEPENDS_${PN} = "bash"
 EXTRA_OE_MAKE_ARGS_darwin ?= ""
 EXTRA_OE_MAKE_ARGS ?= "BUILD_ROOT=${D}"
 
+CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "ac_cv_path_BASH=/bin/bash"
+
 # quilt ignores DESTDIR
 do_install () {
 	oe_runmake ${EXTRA_OE_MAKE_ARGS} install
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/quilt/quilt_0.61.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/quilt/quilt_0.61.bb
index 565e46a39f..3a08d13eaf 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/quilt/quilt_0.61.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/quilt/quilt_0.61.bb
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ SRC_URI += "file://aclocal.patch \
             file://gnu_patch_test_fix_target.patch \
            "
 
-CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "ac_cv_path_BASH=${base_bindir}/bash"
-
 # fix build-distro specific perl path in the target perl scripts
 do_install_append() {
 	for perlscript in ${D}${datadir}/quilt/scripts/remove-trailing-ws ${D}${datadir}/quilt/scripts/dependency-graph ${D}${datadir}/quilt/scripts/edmail ${D}${bindir}/guards