diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 9fb5bd5d..fd22e843 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ define define_module =
     # that the files are all present. No signature hashes are checked in
     # this case, since we don't have a stable version to compare against.
     $(build)/$($1_dir)/.canary:
-	git clone "$($1_repo)" "$(build)/$($1_dir)"
+	git clone $($1_repo) "$(build)/$($1_dir)"
 	if [ -r patches/$1.patch ]; then \
 		( cd $(build)/$($1_dir) ; patch -p1 ) \
 			< patches/$1.patch; \