diff --git a/config/functions b/config/functions
index 3cbdfd7009..14481f6770 100644
--- a/config/functions
+++ b/config/functions
@@ -137,14 +137,14 @@ do_autoreconf() {
 
 strip_lto() {
   # strip out LTO optimization from *FLAGS
-  CFLAGS=`echo $CFLAGS | sed -e "s|-flto||" -e "s|-fuse-linker-plugin||"`
-  CXXFLAGS=`echo $CXXFLAGS | sed -e "s|-flto||" -e "s|-fuse-linker-plugin||"`
-  LDFLAGS=`echo $LDFLAGS | sed -e "s|-flto||" -e "s|-fuse-linker-plugin||"`
+  CFLAGS=`echo $CFLAGS | sed -e "s|-flto||"`
+  CXXFLAGS=`echo $CXXFLAGS | sed -e "s|-flto||"`
+  LDFLAGS=`echo $LDFLAGS | sed -e "s|-flto||"`
 }
 
 strip_gold() {
   # strip out usage from GOLD linker
-  LDFLAGS=`echo $LDFLAGS | sed -e "s|-fuse-ld=gold||"`
+  LDFLAGS=`echo $LDFLAGS | sed -e "s|-fuse-ld=gold||" -e "s|-fuse-linker-plugin||"`
 }
 
 strip_linker_plugin() {