diff --git a/util-linux.spec b/util-linux.spec
index 6f0f50f..6204add 100644
--- a/util-linux.spec
+++ b/util-linux.spec
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ configure_options=""
 # libmagic is only used for determining in more(1) whether or not a file
 # is binary. but it has builtin code that is doing the same with a simpler
 # check and the libmagic database dependency is rather large (9MB+)
-configure_options+="--without-libmagic"
+configure_options+="--without-libmagic "
 
 %if "%ulbuild" == "python"
 %define _configure ../configure