diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/xmlto/xmlto_0.0.28.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/xmlto/xmlto_0.0.28.bb
index 7d27c43c83..5ed2709e31 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/xmlto/xmlto_0.0.28.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/xmlto/xmlto_0.0.28.bb
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ RDEPENDS_${PN}_append_class-target = " \
                   libxslt-bin \
                   coreutils \
 "
-CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "ac_cv_path_TAIL=tail"
+CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "ac_cv_path_TAIL=tail ac_cv_path_GREP=grep"
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"