diff --git a/easybuild/easyblocks/b/bzip2.py b/easybuild/easyblocks/b/bzip2.py
index 5c5d34b8da..02cf703df7 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyblocks/b/bzip2.py
+++ b/easybuild/easyblocks/b/bzip2.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 from easybuild.easyblocks.generic.configuremake import ConfigureMake
 from easybuild.framework.easyconfig import CUSTOM
 from easybuild.tools.build_log import EasyBuildError
-from easybuild.tools.run import run_cmd
+from easybuild.tools.run import run_shell_cmd
 from easybuild.tools.systemtools import get_shared_lib_ext
 
 
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ def install_step(self):
         if self.cfg['with_shared_libs']:
 
             cmd = "%s make -f Makefile-libbz2_so %s" % (self.cfg['prebuildopts'], self.cfg['buildopts'])
-            run_cmd(cmd, log_all=True, simple=True)
+            run_shell_cmd(cmd)
 
             # copy shared libraries to <install dir>/lib
             shlib_ext = get_shared_lib_ext()