diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-db/sqlite/sqlite-9999.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-db/sqlite/sqlite-9999.ebuild
index 7570a65587..272447245c 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-db/sqlite/sqlite-9999.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-db/sqlite/sqlite-9999.ebuild
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ multilib_src_test() {
 	addpredict "/test.db"
 	addpredict "/ÿ.db"
 
-	emake -Onone HAVE_TCL="$(usex tcl 1 "")" $(usex debug 'fulltest' 'test')
+	emake -Onone $(usex debug 'fulltest' 'test')
 }
 
 multilib_src_install() {