diff --git a/buildtgz b/buildtgz
index 61dd5d71c..37c734f87 100755
--- a/buildtgz
+++ b/buildtgz
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#!/bin/bash
 # Make doesn't handle subdirs very well 
 # without providing a Makefile in each one.
 # So we will just manually find any source