diff --git a/app-editors/xvile/xvile-9.8v.ebuild b/app-editors/xvile/xvile-9.8v.ebuild
index 85fc70cefbcc3..b3a06afe19e8a 100644
--- a/app-editors/xvile/xvile-9.8v.ebuild
+++ b/app-editors/xvile/xvile-9.8v.ebuild
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ RDEPEND="~app-editors/vile-${PV}
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	x11-base/xorg-proto
 	sys-devel/flex"
-BDEPEND+"virtual/pkgconfig"
+BDEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig"
 
 S="${WORKDIR}"/${MY_P}