diff --git a/configure b/configure
index e2d292e..b13c0db 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -2880,6 +2880,7 @@ $MAKE
 echo "building the hdf5 library...";
 cd ../;
 ## we add the '-w' flag to suppress all the warnings hdf5 prints
+sed -i 's#/bin/mv#mv#' configure
 ./configure --with-pic --enable-shared=no --enable-cxx \
     --with-szlib \
     CXX="${CXX}" CXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -w" \