diff --git a/net-misc/kafkacat/kafkacat-1.5.0.ebuild b/net-misc/kafkacat/kafkacat-1.5.0.ebuild
index a3ce11e765e8e..0e412519fb951 100644
--- a/net-misc/kafkacat/kafkacat-1.5.0.ebuild
+++ b/net-misc/kafkacat/kafkacat-1.5.0.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=6
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ DEPEND=">=dev-libs/librdkafka-0.9.4
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 
 src_configure() {
-	econf $(use_enable avro) $(use_enable json) --cc=$(tc-getCC)
+	econf $(use_enable avro) $(use_enable json) --cc="$(tc-getCC)"
 }
 
 src_install() {