diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc
index 9db61b785f..434ff222ba 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-gdbtk --disable-x --disable-werror \
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "readline ${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'debuginfod', d)}"
 # Use --without-system-readline to compile with readline 5.
 PACKAGECONFIG[readline] = "--with-system-readline,--without-system-readline,readline"
-PACKAGECONFIG[python] = "--with-python=${WORKDIR}/python,--without-python,python3,python3 python3-codecs"
+PACKAGECONFIG[python] = "--with-python=${WORKDIR}/python,--without-python,python3,python3-codecs"
 PACKAGECONFIG[babeltrace] = "--with-babeltrace,--without-babeltrace,babeltrace"
 # ncurses is already a hard DEPENDS, but would be added here if it weren't
 PACKAGECONFIG[tui] = "--enable-tui,--disable-tui"