diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index eae07ead8..89b223865 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ matrix:
     - compiler: "true 3"
       env: HOST=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu DEP_OPTS="NO_WALLET=1" RUN_TESTS=true GOAL="install" BITCOIN_CONFIG="--enable-glibc-back-compat"
     - compiler: "true 4"
-      env: HOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu PACKAGES="g++-multilib" RUN_TESTS=true GOAL="install" BITCOIN_CONFIG="--enable-glibc-back-compat"
+      env: HOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu PACKAGES="g++-multilib" RUN_TESTS=true GOAL="install" BITCOIN_CONFIG="--enable-glibc-back-compat" USE_SHELL="/bin/dash"
     - compiler: "true 5"
       env: HOST=x86_64-apple-darwin11 PACKAGES="gcc-multilib g++-multilib cmake libcap-dev libz-dev libbz2-dev" OSX_SDK=10.7 GOAL="deploy"
     - compiler: "true 6"
@@ -48,11 +48,12 @@ before_script:
     - if [ -n "$OSX_SDK" -a -f depends/sdk-sources/MacOSX${OSX_SDK}.sdk.tar.gz ]; then tar -C depends/SDKs -xf depends/sdk-sources/MacOSX${OSX_SDK}.sdk.tar.gz; fi
     - make $MAKEJOBS -C depends HOST=$HOST $DEP_OPTS || (echo "Build failure. Verbose build follows." && make -C depends V=1 HOST=$HOST $DEP_OPTS)
 script:
+    - if [ -n "$USE_SHELL" ]; then export CONFIG_SHELL="$USE_SHELL"; fi
     - OUTDIR=$BASE_OUTDIR/$TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST/$TRAVIS_JOB_NUMBER-$HOST
     - BITCOIN_CONFIG_ALL="--disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=$TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/depends/$HOST --bindir=$OUTDIR/bin --libdir=$OUTDIR/lib"
     - depends/$HOST/native/bin/ccache --max-size=$CCACHE_SIZE
     - if [ "$TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST" != "false" ]; then export CCACHE_READONLY=1; fi
-    - ./autogen.sh
+    - test -n "$USE_SHELL" && eval '"$USE_SHELL" -c "./autogen.sh"' || ./autogen.sh
     - ./configure --cache-file=config.cache $BITCOIN_CONFIG_ALL $BITCOIN_CONFIG || ( cat config.log && false)
     - make distdir PACKAGE=bitcoin VERSION=$HOST
     - cd bitcoin-$HOST