diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/setup-hooks/strip.sh b/pkgs/build-support/setup-hooks/strip.sh
index a84f7beaa5a..1815297cb6d 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/setup-hooks/strip.sh
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/setup-hooks/strip.sh
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ stripDirs() {
     dirs=${dirsNew}
 
     if [ -n "${dirs}" ]; then
-        header "stripping (with flags $stripFlags) in $dirs"
+        header "stripping (with flags $stripFlags) in$dirs"
         find $dirs -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ${xargsFlags:--r} strip $commonStripFlags $stripFlags || true
         stopNest
     fi