diff --git a/app-misc/reptyr/reptyr-0.8.0.ebuild b/app-misc/reptyr/reptyr-0.8.0.ebuild
index f8a8c99e02014..960ac099ad2af 100644
--- a/app-misc/reptyr/reptyr-0.8.0.ebuild
+++ b/app-misc/reptyr/reptyr-0.8.0.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ src_prepare() {
 
 src_compile() {
 	append-cppflags -D_GNU_SOURCE
-	emake CC=$(tc-getCC) CFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
+	emake CC="$(tc-getCC)" CFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
 }
 
 src_install() {