diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
index cabc8f4975..7ea661e138 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ do_install:append(){
 KERNEL_FEATURES:append:qemuall=" features/kernel-sample/kernel-sample.scc"
 
 KERNEL_DEBUG_OPTIONS ?= "stack"
-KERNEL_EXTRA_ARGS:append:x86-64 = "${@bb.utils.contains('KERNEL_DEBUG_OPTIONS', 'stack', 'HOST_LIBELF_LIBS="-L${RECIPE_SYSROOT_NATIVE}/usr/lib/pkgconfig/../../../usr/lib/ -lelf"', '', d)}"
+KERNEL_EXTRA_ARGS:append:x86-64 = " ${@bb.utils.contains('KERNEL_DEBUG_OPTIONS', 'stack', 'HOST_LIBELF_LIBS="-L${RECIPE_SYSROOT_NATIVE}/usr/lib/pkgconfig/../../../usr/lib/ -lelf"', '', d)}"
 
 do_devshell:prepend() {
     # setup native pkg-config variables (kconfig scripts call pkg-config directly, cannot generically be overriden to pkg-config-native)