diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/autoconf/autoconf/preferbash.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/autoconf/autoconf/preferbash.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..41a623ac56
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/autoconf/autoconf/preferbash.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+This value is used to determine CONFIG_SHELL and SHELL which may get exported into
+scripts shared via sstate onto other systems.
+
+Some systems have /bin/sh -> dash and others /bin/sh -> bash. Bash is preferred 
+but sometimes we can sometimes end up exporting /bin/sh yet use bashisms.
+
+This patch puts bash first in the search results which avoids the bash/dash confusion.
+
+RP 2012/9/23
+
+Index: autoconf-2.69/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4
+===================================================================
+--- autoconf-2.69.orig/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4	2012-03-07 17:35:26.000000000 +0000
++++ autoconf-2.69/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4	2013-09-23 16:12:38.853597515 +0000
+@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@
+     [_AS_PATH_WALK([/bin$PATH_SEPARATOR/usr/bin$PATH_SEPARATOR$PATH],
+       [case $as_dir in @%:@(
+ 	 /*)
+-	   for as_base in sh bash ksh sh5; do
++	   for as_base in bash sh ksh sh5; do
+ 	     # Try only shells that exist, to save several forks.
+ 	     as_shell=$as_dir/$as_base
+ 	     AS_IF([{ test -f "$as_shell" || test -f "$as_shell.exe"; } &&
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/autoconf/autoconf_2.69.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/autoconf/autoconf_2.69.bb
index 75129512cc..15227299d4 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/autoconf/autoconf_2.69.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/autoconf/autoconf_2.69.bb
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ SRC_URI += "file://autoreconf-include.patch \
 	    ${@['file://path_prog_fixes.patch', ''][bb.data.inherits_class('native', d) or bb.data.inherits_class('nativesdk', d)]} \
             file://config_site.patch \
             file://remove-usr-local-lib-from-m4.patch \
+            file://preferbash.patch \
            "
 
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "82d05e03b93e45f5a39b828dc9c6c29b"