diff --git a/bin/ebuild-helpers/emake b/bin/ebuild-helpers/emake
index 69d836f..4618053 100755
--- a/bin/ebuild-helpers/emake
+++ b/bin/ebuild-helpers/emake
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 if [[ $PORTAGE_QUIET != 1 ]] ; then
 	(
-	for arg in ${MAKE:-make} $MAKEOPTS $EXTRA_EMAKE "$@" ; do
+	for arg in ${MAKE:-make} $MAKEOPTS "$@" $EXTRA_EMAKE ; do
 		[[ ${arg} == *" "* ]] \
 			&& printf "'%s' " "${arg}" \
 			|| printf "%s " "${arg}"
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 	) >&2
 fi
 
-${MAKE:-make} ${MAKEOPTS} ${EXTRA_EMAKE} "$@"
+${MAKE:-make} ${MAKEOPTS} "$@" ${EXTRA_EMAKE}
 ret=$?
 [[ $ret -ne 0 ]] && __helpers_die "${0##*/} failed"
 exit $ret
diff --git a/bin/phase-helpers.sh b/bin/phase-helpers.sh
index 412decb..47bd843 100644
--- a/bin/phase-helpers.sh
+++ b/bin/phase-helpers.sh
@@ -617,8 +617,8 @@
 				mandir="${ED}usr/share/man" \
 				sysconfdir="${ED}etc" \
 				${LOCAL_EXTRA_EINSTALL} \
-				${MAKEOPTS} ${EXTRA_EMAKE} -j1 \
-				"$@" install
+				${MAKEOPTS} -j1 \
+				"$@" ${EXTRA_EMAKE} install
 		fi
 		${MAKE:-make} prefix="${ED}usr" \
 			datadir="${ED}usr/share" \
@@ -627,8 +627,8 @@
 			mandir="${ED}usr/share/man" \
 			sysconfdir="${ED}etc" \
 			${LOCAL_EXTRA_EINSTALL} \
-			${MAKEOPTS} ${EXTRA_EMAKE} -j1 \
-			"$@" install || die "einstall failed"
+			${MAKEOPTS} -j1 \
+			"$@" ${EXTRA_EMAKE} install || die "einstall failed"
 	else
 		die "no Makefile found"
 	fi