diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/quilt/quilt.inc b/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/quilt/quilt.inc
index d6d06c0..d7ecda7 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/quilt/quilt.inc
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/quilt/quilt.inc
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 EXTRA_OECONF_append_class-native = " --disable-nls"
 EXTRA_AUTORECONF += "--exclude=aclocal"
 
-CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "ac_cv_path_BASH=/bin/bash"
+CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "ac_cv_path_BASH=/bin/bash ac_cv_path_COLUMN=column"
 
 # Make sure we don't have "-w" in shebang lines: it breaks using
 # "/usr/bin/env perl" as parser