diff --git a/package/base/mktemp/mktemp.conf b/package/base/mktemp/mktemp.conf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..85a1be485
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/base/mktemp/mktemp.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+if [ $stagelevel -le 2 ] ; then
+	hook_add preconf 5 "echo sudo_cv_ebcdic=no > config.cache"
+	var_append extraconfopt " " "--cache-file=config.cache"
+fi