diff --git a/Documentation/Developers/PKG-BUILD-VARS b/Documentation/Developers/PKG-BUILD-VARS
index c8725ae18..7b45b764a 100644
--- a/Documentation/Developers/PKG-BUILD-VARS
+++ b/Documentation/Developers/PKG-BUILD-VARS
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ confopt ....... options for GNU autoconf './configure'
 extraconfopt .. options which should be appended to $confopt by set_confopt()
 configprefix .. variable declarations only for GNU autoconf './configure'
 configscript .. script file name of the GNU autoconf configure script
+configexec .... command for executing $configscript (default=bash)
 pyconfopt ..... options for 'setup.py' - Python setup scripts
 
 runxmkmf ...... set to '0' if you want to skip running 'xmkmf'
diff --git a/package/tibit/lesspipe/lesspipe.conf b/package/tibit/lesspipe/lesspipe.conf
index 293a96fcf..21648ced6 100644
--- a/package/tibit/lesspipe/lesspipe.conf
+++ b/package/tibit/lesspipe/lesspipe.conf
@@ -21,4 +21,5 @@
 # --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
 
 confopt="$confopt --yes";
+configexec=""
 
diff --git a/scripts/Build-Pkg b/scripts/Build-Pkg
index 17cea8ba2..34761291e 100755
--- a/scripts/Build-Pkg
+++ b/scripts/Build-Pkg
@@ -518,6 +518,7 @@ hook_add postflist 3 'postflist_static_lib'
 
 configprefix="" ; autogen=0 ; automakever=""
 configscript="./configure" ; extraconfopt=""
+configexec="bash"
 
 srcdir=auto ; srctar=auto
 taropt="--use-compress-program=bzip2 -xf"
diff --git a/scripts/functions b/scripts/functions
index e41ebec78..e19631e90 100644
--- a/scripts/functions
+++ b/scripts/functions
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ function eval_config_command() {
 		export cache_file=config.cache
 	fi
 
-	config_command="$configprefix bash $configscript"
+	config_command="$configprefix $configexec $configscript"
 	sub_scripts="$( find $( dirname $configscript ) -name configure )"
 
 	# remove unsupported config script options