diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index badb9239e2bb4ab64a8d016bfebe80319aa08d08..0499c2ee8541f7dfde385a74ea27270be75e45a0 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1526,7 +1526,8 @@ quiet_cmd_rmfiles = $(if $(wildcard $(rm-files)),CLEAN   $(wildcard $(rm-files))
 
 # Run depmod only if we have System.map and depmod is executable
 quiet_cmd_depmod = DEPMOD  $(KERNELRELEASE)
-      cmd_depmod = $(srctree)/scripts/depmod.sh $(DEPMOD) $(KERNELRELEASE)
+      cmd_depmod = $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/depmod.sh $(DEPMOD) \
+                   $(KERNELRELEASE)
 
 # Create temporary dir for module support files
 # clean it up only when building all modules
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/PERF-VERSION-GEN b/tools/perf/util/PERF-VERSION-GEN
index 9c5fb4d93824e406d534631a39ca96ea48e415a0..ad73300f7bac6d1b11e4db0f1e121e0e26b0fb0c 100755
--- a/tools/perf/util/PERF-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/tools/perf/util/PERF-VERSION-GEN
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ if test -d ../../.git -o -f ../../.git &&
 then
 	VN=$(echo "$VN" | sed -e 's/-/./g');
 else
-	VN=$(make -sC ../.. kernelversion)
+	VN=$(MAKEFLAGS= make -sC ../.. kernelversion)
 fi
 
 VN=$(expr "$VN" : v*'\(.*\)')