diff --git a/dev-php/pecl-parallel/pecl-parallel-1.2.6.ebuild b/dev-php/pecl-parallel/pecl-parallel-1.2.6.ebuild
index 60f0756e840ea..ddfb70dc799fa 100644
--- a/dev-php/pecl-parallel/pecl-parallel-1.2.6.ebuild
+++ b/dev-php/pecl-parallel/pecl-parallel-1.2.6.ebuild
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ inherit php-ext-pecl-r3
 DESCRIPTION="A succint parallel concurrency API for PHP"
 SRC_URI="${SRC_URI} -> ${P}.tgz"
 
-PATCHES="${FILESDIR}/pecl-parallel-1.2.6-php8.3.patch"
+PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}/pecl-parallel-1.2.6-php8.3.patch" )
 
 LICENSE="PHP-3.01"
 SLOT="8"