diff --git a/Makefile.config.in b/Makefile.config.in
index b632444e8abe..7f9bb568cc63 100644
--- a/Makefile.config.in
+++ b/Makefile.config.in
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ LIBLZMA_LIBS = @LIBLZMA_LIBS@
 OPENSSL_LIBS = @OPENSSL_LIBS@
 PACKAGE_NAME = @PACKAGE_NAME@
 PACKAGE_VERSION = @PACKAGE_VERSION@
+SHELL = @SHELL@
 SODIUM_LIBS = @SODIUM_LIBS@
 SQLITE3_LIBS = @SQLITE3_LIBS@
 bash = @bash@
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 2f29cf8647ca..4fdbe5a06815 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ AC_PROG_CXX
 AC_PROG_CPP
 
 AC_CHECK_TOOL([AR], [ar])
+AC_CHECK_TOOL([SHELL], [sh])
 
 # Use 64-bit file system calls so that we can support files > 2 GiB.
 AC_SYS_LARGEFILE