diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/cml1.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/cml1.bbclass
index a09a042c3f..d6001d6fd0 100644
--- a/meta/classes-recipe/cml1.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes-recipe/cml1.bbclass
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ python do_menuconfig() {
     # ensure that environment variables are overwritten with this tasks 'd' values
     d.appendVar("OE_TERMINAL_EXPORTS", " PKG_CONFIG_DIR PKG_CONFIG_PATH PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR")

-    oe_terminal("sh -c \"make %s; if [ \\$? -ne 0 ]; then echo 'Command failed.'; printf 'Press any key to continue... '; read r; fi\"" % d.getVar('KCONFIG_CONFIG_COMMAND'),
+    make_cmd = "make %s" % d.getVar('KCONFIG_CONFIG_COMMAND').replace('"', '\\"')
+    oe_terminal("sh -c \"%s; if [ \\$? -ne 0 ]; then echo 'Command failed.'; printf 'Press any key to continue... '; read r; fi\"" % make_cmd,
                 d.getVar('PN') + ' Configuration', d)

What do you think? Is my observed behavior a configuration error of my