Index: e2fsprogs-1.41.5/po/Makefile.in.in
===================================================================
--- e2fsprogs-1.41.5.orig/po/Makefile.in.in	2009-02-14 13:49:08.000000000 +0000
+++ e2fsprogs-1.41.5/po/Makefile.in.in	2009-08-19 17:52:31.000000000 +0100
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 INSTALL = @INSTALL@
 INSTALL_DATA = @INSTALL_DATA@
 MKINSTALLDIRS = @MKINSTALLDIRS@
-mkinstalldirs = $(SHELL) $(MKINSTALLDIRS)
+mkinstalldirs = $(MKINSTALLDIRS)
 
 GMSGFMT = @GMSGFMT@
 MSGFMT = @MSGFMT@
Index: e2fsprogs-1.41.5/configure.in
===================================================================
--- e2fsprogs-1.41.5.orig/configure.in	2009-08-19 17:53:50.000000000 +0100
+++ e2fsprogs-1.41.5/configure.in	2009-08-19 17:48:38.000000000 +0100
@@ -970,6 +970,8 @@
 fi
 AC_SUBST(BUILD_CFLAGS)
 AC_SUBST(BUILD_LDFLAGS)
+MKINSTALLDIRS="mkdir -p"
+AC_SUBST(MKINSTALLDIRS)
 dnl
 dnl Make our output files, being sure that we create the some miscellaneous 
 dnl directories