diff --git a/kernel.spec b/kernel.spec
index 83a2944..f42ca6f 100644
--- a/kernel.spec
+++ b/kernel.spec
@@ -1214,13 +1214,12 @@ sed -n \
 	> "%{certs_public_keys}"
 
 # link sign-file and extract-cert with LibreSSL instead of OpenSSL
-libressl_cflags="$(pkg-config --cflags --libs libressl-libcrypto)"
 if [ $? != 0 ] ; then exit $? ; fi
 sed -i %{src_dir}/scripts/Makefile \
 %if %{with uml}
     %{src_dir}.uml/scripts/Makefile \
 %endif
-	-e "s,-lcrypto,${libressl_cflags},g"
+	-e "s, libcrypto , libressl-libcrypto ,g"
 
 %if %{with additional_keys}
 # Add additional public RSA keys to the list of trusted keys for kernel modules