diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 9ee12d7c1f1..9975971021e 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ fi
 # these tools are built for the host environment
 # Note, the powerpc-eabi build depends on sim occurring before gdb in order to
 # know that we are building the simulator.
-host_tools="texinfo byacc flex bison binutils ld gas gcc sim gdb make patch prms send-pr gprof gdbtest tgas etc expect dejagnu bash m4 autoconf automake ispell grep diff rcs cvssrc fileutils shellutils time textutils wdiff find emacs emacs19 uudecode hello tar gzip indent recode release sed utils guile perl apache inet gawk findutils snavigator libtool gettext"
+host_tools="texinfo byacc flex bison binutils ld gas gcc sim gdb make patch prms send-pr gprof gdbtest tgas etc expect dejagnu ash bash m4 autoconf automake ispell grep diff rcs cvssrc fileutils shellutils time textutils wdiff find emacs emacs19 uudecode hello tar gzip indent recode release sed utils guile perl apache inet gawk findutils snavigator libtool gettext"
 # start-sanitize-ide
 host_tools="${host_tools} ilu vmake jstools"
 # end-sanitize-ide
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ target_tools="target-examples target-groff target-gperf"
 #
 # This must be a single line because of the way it is searched by grep in
 # the code below.
-native_only="autoconf automake cvssrc emacs emacs19 fileutils find gawk gettext grep gzip hello indent ispell m4 rcs recode sed shellutils tar textutils gash uudecode wdiff gprof target-groff guile perl apache inet time bash prms snavigator gnuserv target-gperf libtool"
+native_only="autoconf automake cvssrc emacs emacs19 fileutils find gawk gettext grep gzip hello indent ispell m4 rcs recode sed shellutils tar textutils gash uudecode wdiff gprof target-groff guile perl apache inet time ash bash prms snavigator gnuserv target-gperf libtool"
 
 # directories to be built in a cross environment only
 #