diff --git a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
index 3f42b4f7cd..838448f33c 100644
--- a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
@@ -331,9 +331,6 @@ def check_sanity(e):
     if not data.getVar( 'DISPLAY', e.data, True ) and data.getVar( 'IMAGETEST', e.data, True ) == 'qemu':
         messages = messages + 'qemuimagetest needs a X desktop to start qemu, please set DISPLAY correctly (e.g. DISPLAY=:1.0)\n'
 
-    if os.path.basename(os.readlink('/bin/sh')) == 'dash':
-        messages = messages + "Using dash as /bin/sh causes various subtle build problems, please use bash instead (e.g. 'dpkg-reconfigure dash' on an Ubuntu system.\n"
-
     omask = os.umask(022)
     if omask & 0755:
         messages = messages + "Please use a umask which allows a+rx and u+rwx\n"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/libtool/libtool/prefix.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/libtool/libtool/prefix.patch
index 1b20324715..e6eca1fe02 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/libtool/libtool/prefix.patch
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/libtool/libtool/prefix.patch
@@ -8,6 +8,15 @@ Originally by: RP
 Updated: Date: 2010/06/28
 Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>
 
+It also adjusts libtool so that the header at the script is used for 
+script execution and not thevalue of $SHELL. This is because many 
+Makefiles change $SHELL so dash can get used to execute what is 
+otherwise configured as a bash shell script. Since we don't need to 
+execute scipts this way on any system I'm aware of us building upon, 
+the simplest fix is just to remove $SHELL.
+
+Updated: Date: 2011/11/09
+RP
 
 Index: libtool-2.4/libltdl/m4/libtool.m4
 ===================================================================
@@ -18,7 +27,7 @@ Index: libtool-2.4/libltdl/m4/libtool.m4
  
  # Always use our own libtool.
 -LIBTOOL='$(SHELL) $(top_builddir)/libtool'
-+LIBTOOL='$(SHELL) $(top_builddir)'
++LIBTOOL='$(top_builddir)'
 +LIBTOOL="$LIBTOOL/${host_alias}-libtool"
  AC_SUBST(LIBTOOL)dnl
  
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/openjade/openjade-native_1.3.2.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/openjade/openjade-native_1.3.2.bb
index 6cc6bb5d2b..0cce46eca2 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/openjade/openjade-native_1.3.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/openjade/openjade-native_1.3.2.bb
@@ -53,7 +53,9 @@ do_install() {
 
 	install -d ${D}${datadir}/sgml/openjade-${PV}
 	install -m 644 dsssl/catalog ${D}${datadir}/sgml/openjade-${PV}
-	install -m 644 dsssl/*.{dtd,dsl,sgm} ${D}${datadir}/sgml/openjade-${PV}
+	install -m 644 dsssl/*.dtd ${D}${datadir}/sgml/openjade-${PV}
+	install -m 644 dsssl/*.dsl ${D}${datadir}/sgml/openjade-${PV}
+	install -m 644 dsssl/*.sgm ${D}${datadir}/sgml/openjade-${PV}
 
 	install -d ${datadir}/sgml/openjade-${PV}
 	install -m 644 dsssl/catalog ${datadir}/sgml/openjade-${PV}/catalog