--- a/common/autoconf/configure	Tue Dec 08 10:11:28 2015 +0530
+++ b/common/autoconf/configure	Wed Dec 09 11:44:40 2015 +0100
@@ -257,10 +257,14 @@
 
 # Now transfer control to the script generated by autoconf. This is where the
 # main work is done.
+RCDIR=`mktemp -dt jdk-build-configure.tmp.XXXXXX` || exit $?
+trap "rm -rf \"$RCDIR\"" EXIT
 conf_logfile=./configure.log
-(exec 3>&1 ; (. $conf_script_to_run "${conf_processed_arguments[@]}" 2>&1 1>&3 ) | tee -a $conf_logfile 1>&2 ; exec 3>&-) | tee -a $conf_logfile
+(exec 3>&1 ; ((. $conf_script_to_run "${conf_processed_arguments[@]}" 2>&1 1>&3 ) \
+    ; echo $? > "$RCDIR/rc" ) \
+    | tee -a $conf_logfile 1>&2 ; exec 3>&-) | tee -a $conf_logfile
 
-conf_result_code=$?
+conf_result_code=`cat "$RCDIR/rc"`
 ###
 ### Post-processing
 ###