diff --git a/bin/rosmake b/bin/rosmake
index 803c8b23..5680f161 100755
--- a/bin/rosmake
+++ b/bin/rosmake
@@ -40,7 +40,9 @@ def assert_rospack_built():
         # Do not try to build rospack if a ROS_NOBUILD flag is present
         return True
 
-    if subprocess.call(["make", "-C", os.path.join(os.environ["ROS_ROOT"], "tools/rospack")], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE) :
+    #cmd = ["make", "-C", os.path.join(os.environ["ROS_ROOT"], "tools/rospack")] Doesn't work with cmake 2.6, will trigger rebuilds due to different paths.  Fixed in 2.8.
+    cmd = ["bash", "-c", "cd %s && make"%(os.path.join(os.environ["ROS_ROOT"], "tools/rospack"))]
+    if subprocess.call(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE) :
         print "Rospack failed to build" 
         return False