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-rw-r--r--doc/old/cross.txt2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/audio/lingot/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/audio/mhwaveedit/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/audio/schismtracker/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/audio/transcode/default.nix8
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/editors/elvis/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/bbdb/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/maude/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/graphics/xara/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/misc/cgminer/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/misc/fetchmail/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/misc/font-manager/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/misc/gksu/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/misc/jigdo/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/misc/notify-osd/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/misc/taskjuggler/2.x/default.nix12
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/misc/wordnet/default.nix6
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/networking/ids/daq/default.nix6
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/networking/ids/snort/default.nix7
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/amsn/default.nix6
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/mcabber/default.nix6
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/silc-client/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/telepathy/gabble/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/telepathy/logger/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/telepathy/salut/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/networking/newsreaders/slrn/default.nix5
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/office/gnucash/2.4.nix8
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/office/gnumeric/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/office/ledger/2.6.3.nix6
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/science/biology/ncbi-tools/default.nix7
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/science/electronics/geda/default.nix4
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/science/electronics/xcircuit/default.nix6
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/science/logic/eprover/default.nix5
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/science/logic/hol/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/science/math/cbc/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/science/math/ginac/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/science/misc/boinc/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/video/kino/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/video/xine-ui/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/virtualization/singularity/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/data/icons/tango-icon-theme/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/gnome-control-center/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/gnome-desktop/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/libgweather/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/scrollkeeper/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/zenity/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/folks/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/rest/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/desktops/mate/mate-control-center/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/desktops/mate/mate-screensaver/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/desktops/mate/mate-system-monitor/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/opa/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/swi-prolog/default.nix6
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/urweb/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/yap/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/coq-modules/coquelicot/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/interpreters/clisp/default.nix16
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/interpreters/clisp/hg.nix16
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/aalib/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/agg/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/arb/git.nix4
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/beecrypt/default.nix4
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/buddy/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/clearsilver/default.nix9
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/cloog-ppl/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/cwiid/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/dbus-cplusplus/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/fflas-ffpack/1.nix6
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/gamin/default.nix6
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/gegl/3.0.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/gegl/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/gsasl/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/icu/base.nix6
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/imlib/default.nix9
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/jasper/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/lensfun/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/libagar/libagar_test.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/libcanberra/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/libcmis/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/libextractor/default.nix10
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/libmp3splt/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/libpng/12.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/libpqxx/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/libspatialite/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/libzmf/default.nix6
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/loudmouth/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/nlopt/default.nix17
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/ntrack/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/openwsman/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/rarian/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/readosm/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/science/biology/htslib/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/liblbfgs/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/snack/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/spatialite-tools/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/sword/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/thrift/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/vapoursynth-mvtools/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/libraries/wayland/1.9.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/misc/avr/binutils/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/bap/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/fileutils/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/lablgtk/2.14.0.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/lablgtk/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocsigen-server/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/qcheck/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/python-modules/pygobject/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/tools/documentation/gnome-doc-utils/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/tools/misc/cscope/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/tools/misc/ddd/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/tools/misc/gnum4/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/tools/misc/swig/2.x.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/tools/misc/swig/3.x.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/tools/misc/swig/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/games/exult/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/games/gltron/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/games/typespeed/default.nix4
-rw-r--r--pkgs/misc/drivers/xwiimote/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/misc/emulators/atari800/default.nix10
-rw-r--r--pkgs/misc/emulators/vice/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/misc/screensavers/vlock/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/os-specific/linux/alsa-oss/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/os-specific/linux/alsa-utils/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/os-specific/linux/drbd/default.nix7
-rw-r--r--pkgs/os-specific/linux/hwdata/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/os-specific/linux/pm-utils/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/os-specific/linux/pmount/default.nix15
-rw-r--r--pkgs/os-specific/linux/udisks/1-default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/os-specific/windows/cygwin-setup/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/servers/dict/libmaa.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/servers/http/apache-modules/tomcat-connectors/default.nix5
-rw-r--r--pkgs/servers/http/pshs/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/servers/http/yaws/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/servers/mail/mailman/default.nix8
-rw-r--r--pkgs/servers/mail/petidomo/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/servers/monitoring/zabbix/2.0.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/servers/monitoring/zabbix/2.2.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/servers/monitoring/zabbix/default.nix9
-rw-r--r--pkgs/servers/news/leafnode/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/servers/sql/postgresql/psqlodbc/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/servers/sql/virtuoso/6.x.nix10
-rw-r--r--pkgs/servers/sql/virtuoso/7.x.nix10
-rw-r--r--pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/default.nix68
-rwxr-xr-xpkgs/servers/x11/xorg/generate-expr-from-tarballs.pl2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/overrides.nix12
-rw-r--r--pkgs/tools/backup/partimage/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/tools/filesystems/davfs2/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/tools/graphics/editres/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/tools/graphics/ggobi/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/tools/graphics/plotutils/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/tools/inputmethods/keyfuzz/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/tools/misc/most/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/tools/networking/argus-clients/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/tools/networking/cadaver/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/tools/networking/infiniband-diags/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/tools/networking/reaver-wps/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/tools/networking/ssmtp/default.nix5
-rw-r--r--pkgs/tools/networking/trickle/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/tools/networking/webalizer/default.nix9
-rw-r--r--pkgs/tools/security/super/default.nix5
-rw-r--r--pkgs/tools/security/yara/default.nix10
-rw-r--r--pkgs/tools/text/catdoc/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/tools/typesetting/xmlroff/default.nix5
-rw-r--r--pkgs/top-level/php-packages.nix4
164 files changed, 380 insertions, 263 deletions
diff --git a/doc/old/cross.txt b/doc/old/cross.txt
index 73103ea0c6d..c0885c08176 100644
--- a/doc/old/cross.txt
+++ b/doc/old/cross.txt
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     sha256 = "1ian3kwh2vg6hr3ymrv48s04gijs539vzrq62xr76bxbhbwnz2np";
   };
   inherit noSysDirs;
-  configureFlags = "--target=arm-linux";
+  configureFlags = [ "--target=arm-linux" ];
 }
 ---
 
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/lingot/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/lingot/default.nix
index 65df1b89430..389db3d548d 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/lingot/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/lingot/default.nix
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ intltool gtk2 alsaLib libglade ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-jack";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-jack" ];
 
   meta = {
     description = "Not a Guitar-Only tuner";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/mhwaveedit/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/mhwaveedit/default.nix
index 3a77c7bbbf2..88b636679cb 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/mhwaveedit/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/mhwaveedit/default.nix
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation  rec {
      pkgconfig libpulseaudio makeWrapper
   ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-default-ladspa-path=${ladspaPlugins}/lib/ladspa";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-default-ladspa-path=${ladspaPlugins}/lib/ladspa" ];
 
   postInstall = ''
     wrapProgram $out/bin/mhwaveedit \
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/schismtracker/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/schismtracker/default.nix
index 22786304faa..ab1a6e38738 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/schismtracker/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/schismtracker/default.nix
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     export ac_cv_prog_ac_ct_WINDRES=
   '';
 
-  configureFlags = "--enable-dependency-tracking";
+  configureFlags = [ "--enable-dependency-tracking" ];
 
   buildInputs = [ alsaLib python SDL ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/transcode/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/transcode/default.nix
index f47c8fa2eec..d7d5b65375e 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/transcode/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/transcode/default.nix
@@ -10,9 +10,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ flac lame zlib libjpeg libvorbis libtheora libxml2 lzo
                   libdvdread pkgconfig x264 libmpeg2 xvidcore ];
-  configureFlags = "--disable-ffmpeg --disable-libavcodec --disable-libavformat
-    --enable-lzo --enable-ogg --enable-vorbis --enable-theora --enable-libxml2
-    --enable-x264 --enable-libmpeg2 --enable-xvid";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--disable-ffmpeg" "--disable-libavcodec" "--disable-libavformat"
+    "--enable-lzo" "--enable-ogg" "--enable-vorbis" "--enable-theora" "--enable-libxml2"
+    "--enable-x264" "--enable-libmpeg2" "--enable-xvid"
+  ];
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/elvis/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/elvis/default.nix
index b9bd529930f..078b8a03b5d 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/elvis/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/elvis/default.nix
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     done
   '';
 
-  configureFlags = "--ioctl=termios";
+  configureFlags = [ "--ioctl=termios" ];
 
   meta = {
     homepage = http://elvis.vi-editor.org/;
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/bbdb/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/bbdb/default.nix
index 0ab11b5bf20..689bcfc9adf 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/bbdb/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/bbdb/default.nix
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   patches = [ ./install-infodir.patch ];
 
   buildInputs = [emacs texinfo ctags];
-  configureFlags = "--with-package-dir=$$out/share/emacs/site-lisp";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-package-dir=$$out/share/emacs/site-lisp" ];
   preInstall = "mkdir -p $out/info";
   installTargets = "install-pkg texinfo";
   postInstall = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/maude/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/maude/default.nix
index 70693d039c5..9b737a938a1 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/maude/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/maude/default.nix
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   };
 
   buildInputs = [emacs];
-  configureFlags = "--with-lispdir=$$out/share/emacs/site-lisp";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-lispdir=$$out/share/emacs/site-lisp" ];
 
   meta = {
     description = "Emacs mode for the programming language Maude";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/graphics/xara/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/graphics/xara/default.nix
index 4542de2d42f..56388a8a255 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/graphics/xara/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/graphics/xara/default.nix
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ automake pkgconfig gettext perl zip ];
   buildInputs = [ wxGTK gtk2 libxml2 freetype pango ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-svnversion";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-svnversion" ];
 
   patches = map fetchurl (import ./debian-patches.nix);
 
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/cgminer/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/cgminer/default.nix
index acd38d74dca..ee3e2a955d3 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/cgminer/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/cgminer/default.nix
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     xorg.libX11 xorg.libXext xorg.libXinerama jansson
   ];
   configureScript = "./autogen.sh";
-  configureFlags = "--enable-scrypt --enable-opencl";
+  configureFlags = [ "--enable-scrypt" "--enable-opencl" ];
   NIX_LDFLAGS = "-lgcc_s -lX11 -lXext -lXinerama";
 
   preConfigure = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/fetchmail/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/fetchmail/default.nix
index 5cd8f572ad4..7aee6cb7081 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/fetchmail/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/fetchmail/default.nix
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   buildInputs = [ openssl ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-ssl=${openssl.dev}";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-ssl=${openssl.dev}" ];
 
   meta = {
     homepage = http://www.fetchmail.info/;
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/font-manager/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/font-manager/default.nix
index be853e4213b..1fad5333a14 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/font-manager/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/font-manager/default.nix
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     substituteInPlace configure --replace "/usr/bin/file" "${file}/bin/file"
   '';
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-pycompile";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-pycompile" ];
 
   meta = {
     homepage = https://fontmanager.github.io/;
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/gksu/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/gksu/default.nix
index 6adc805b728..712c2081f10 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/gksu/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/gksu/default.nix
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sed -i -e 's|/usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator|-l gnome-terminal|g' gksu.desktop
   '';
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-nautilus-extension";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-nautilus-extension" ];
 
   meta = {
     description = "A graphical frontend for libgksu";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/jigdo/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/jigdo/default.nix
index d8b1253ac27..3561fcde839 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/jigdo/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/jigdo/default.nix
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   buildInputs = [ db gtk2 bzip2 ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--without-libdb";
+  configureFlags = [ "--without-libdb" ];
 
   meta = {
     description = "Download utility that can fetch files from several sources simultaneously";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/notify-osd/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/notify-osd/default.nix
index 8e8126192dd..f602ce9db66 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/notify-osd/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/notify-osd/default.nix
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     gnome3.gsettings-desktop-schemas
   ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--libexecdir=$(out)/bin";
+  configureFlags = [ "--libexecdir=$(out)/bin" ];
 
   preFixup = ''
     wrapProgram "$out/bin/notify-osd" \
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/taskjuggler/2.x/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/taskjuggler/2.x/default.nix
index 2b0573f2d2d..6b38c3d59c2 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/taskjuggler/2.x/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/taskjuggler/2.x/default.nix
@@ -44,12 +44,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     HOME=$TMPDIR
   '';
 
-  configureFlags = "
-    --without-arts --disable-docs
-    --x-includes=${libX11.dev}/include
-    --x-libraries=${libX11.out}/lib
-    --with-qt-dir=${qt3}
-  ";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--without-arts" "--disable-docs"
+    "--x-includes=${libX11.dev}/include"
+    "--x-libraries=${libX11.out}/lib"
+    "--with-qt-dir=${qt3}"
+  ];
 
   preInstall = ''
     mkdir -p $out/share/emacs/site-lisp/
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/wordnet/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/wordnet/default.nix
index 71d95e13892..a2e3fa13fc6 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/wordnet/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/wordnet/default.nix
@@ -17,8 +17,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   '';
 
   # Needs the path to `tclConfig.sh' and `tkConfig.sh'.
-  configureFlags = "--with-tcl=" + tcl + "/lib " +
-                   "--with-tk="  + tk  + "/lib";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--with-tcl=${tcl}/lib"
+    "--with-tk=${tk}/lib"
+  ];
 
   postInstall = ''
     wrapProgram $out/bin/wishwn --set TK_LIBRARY "${tk}/lib/${tk.libPrefix}"
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/ids/daq/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/ids/daq/default.nix
index 3dc154351d2..9af105ad52e 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/ids/daq/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/ids/daq/default.nix
@@ -11,7 +11,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ flex bison libpcap libdnet libnfnetlink libnetfilter_queue];
 
-  configureFlags = "--enable-nfq-module=yes --with-dnet-includes=${libdnet}/includes --with-dnet-libraries=${libdnet}/lib";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--enable-nfq-module=yes"
+    "--with-dnet-includes=${libdnet}/includes"
+    "--with-dnet-libraries=${libdnet}/lib"
+  ];
 
   meta = {
     description = "Data AcQuisition library (DAQ), for packet I/O";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/ids/snort/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/ids/snort/default.nix
index ff19a62ef30..0fdfbacb45c 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/ids/snort/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/ids/snort/default.nix
@@ -14,7 +14,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-static-daq --enable-control-socket --with-daq-includes=${daq}/includes --with-daq-libraries=${daq}/lib"; 
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--disable-static-daq"
+    "--enable-control-socket"
+    "--with-daq-includes=${daq}/includes"
+    "--with-daq-libraries=${daq}/lib"
+  ]; 
 
   postInstall = ''
     wrapProgram $out/bin/snort --add-flags "--daq-dir ${daq}/lib/daq --dynamic-preprocessor-lib-dir $out/lib/snort_dynamicpreprocessor/ --dynamic-engine-lib-dir $out/lib/snort_dynamicengine"
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/amsn/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/amsn/default.nix
index e6ffd72afa5..6ff51445718 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/amsn/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/amsn/default.nix
@@ -7,7 +7,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     sha256 = "0b8ir7spxnsz8f7kvr9f1k91nsy8cb65q6jv2l55b04fl20x4z7r";
   };
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-tcl=${tcl}/lib --with-tk=${tk}/lib --enable-static";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--with-tcl=${tcl}/lib"
+    "--with-tk=${tk}/lib"
+    "--enable-static"
+  ];
 
   buildInputs = [which tcl tk xlibsWrapper libpng libjpeg makeWrapper];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/mcabber/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/mcabber/default.nix
index 6a697790d8f..d86d62021fb 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/mcabber/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/mcabber/default.nix
@@ -14,7 +14,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ openssl ncurses glib loudmouth libotr gpgme ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-openssl=${openssl.dev} --enable-modules --enable-otr";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--with-openssl=${openssl.dev}"
+    "--enable-modules"
+    "--enable-otr"
+  ];
 
   doCheck = true;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/silc-client/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/silc-client/default.nix
index dca7d1257f6..1219440bf83 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/silc-client/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/silc-client/default.nix
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-ncurses=${ncurses.dev}";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-ncurses=${ncurses.dev}" ];
 
   preConfigure = stdenv.lib.optionalString enablePlugin ''
     configureFlags="$configureFlags --with-silc-plugin=$out/lib/irssi"
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/telepathy/gabble/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/telepathy/gabble/default.nix
index 525a8a313f4..a0cc73da46d 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/telepathy/gabble/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/telepathy/gabble/default.nix
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   checkInputs = [ dbus.daemon ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-ca-certificates=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-ca-certificates=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt" ];
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
   doCheck = true;
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/telepathy/logger/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/telepathy/logger/default.nix
index 82ad57ae927..f6e3baadb4e 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/telepathy/logger/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/telepathy/logger/default.nix
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     dbus telepathy-glib.python
   ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--enable-call";
+  configureFlags = [ "--enable-call" ];
 
   preFixup = ''
     wrapProgram "$out/libexec/telepathy-logger" \
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/telepathy/salut/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/telepathy/salut/default.nix
index bae7231e783..68c81d38078 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/telepathy/salut/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/telepathy/salut/default.nix
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ libxslt pkgconfigUpstream ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-avahi-tests";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-avahi-tests" ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Link-local XMPP connection manager for Telepathy";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/newsreaders/slrn/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/newsreaders/slrn/default.nix
index d761be2d7ac..9f775f0db65 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/newsreaders/slrn/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/newsreaders/slrn/default.nix
@@ -18,7 +18,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
       -e "s|/bin/rm|rm|"
   '';
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-slang=${slang.dev} --with-ssl=${openssl.dev}";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--with-slang=${slang.dev}"
+    "--with-ssl=${openssl.dev}"
+  ];
 
   buildInputs = [ slang ncurses openssl ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/office/gnucash/2.4.nix b/pkgs/applications/office/gnucash/2.4.nix
index b4e962ce3fc..9aa4cc64315 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/office/gnucash/2.4.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/office/gnucash/2.4.nix
@@ -27,7 +27,13 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   ];
   propagatedUserEnvPkgs = [ gconf ];
 
-  configureFlags = "CFLAGS=-O3 CXXFLAGS=-O3 --disable-dbi --enable-ofx --enable-aqbanking";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "CFLAGS=-O3"
+    "CXXFLAGS=-O3"
+    "--disable-dbi"
+    "--enable-ofx"
+    "--enable-aqbanking"
+  ];
 
   postInstall = ''
     # Auto-updaters don't make sense in Nix.
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/office/gnumeric/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/office/gnumeric/default.nix
index badc02a3646..e196b1bd0d7 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/office/gnumeric/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/office/gnumeric/default.nix
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "26cceb7fa97dc7eee7181a79a6251a85b1f1464dcaaaf7624829f7439c5f7d3f";
   };
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-component";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-component" ];
 
   prePatch = ''
     substituteInPlace doc/C/gnumeric.xml \
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/office/ledger/2.6.3.nix b/pkgs/applications/office/ledger/2.6.3.nix
index 6fb8f6ca903..49b258c43fd 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/office/ledger/2.6.3.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/office/ledger/2.6.3.nix
@@ -10,7 +10,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ emacs gmp pcre expat ];
 
-  configureFlags = "CPPFLAGS=-DNDEBUG CFLAGS=-O3 CXXFLAGS=-O3";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "CPPFLAGS=-DNDEBUG"
+    "CFLAGS=-O3"
+    "CXXFLAGS=-O3"
+  ];
 
   doCheck = true;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/biology/ncbi-tools/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/biology/ncbi-tools/default.nix
index 821a80230e5..1c24ef09254 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/biology/ncbi-tools/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/biology/ncbi-tools/default.nix
@@ -15,7 +15,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "1b2v0dcdqn3bysgdkj57sxmd6s0hc9wpnxssviz399g6plhxggbr";
   };
 
-  configureFlags = "--without-debug --with-bin-release --with-dll --without-static";
+  configureFlags = [ 
+    "--without-debug"
+    "--with-bin-release"
+    "--with-dll"
+    "--without-static"
+  ];
   buildInputs = [ cpio ];
 
   meta = {
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/geda/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/geda/default.nix
index e080569e56f..93fe7b6ba77 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/geda/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/geda/default.nix
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "08dpa506xk4gjbbi8vnxcb640wq4ihlgmhzlssl52nhvxwx7gx5v";
   };
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-update-xdg-database";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--disable-update-xdg-database" 
+  ];
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ guile gtk2 flex gawk perl ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/xcircuit/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/xcircuit/default.nix
index ba2a170e625..418144e6af7 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/xcircuit/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/xcircuit/default.nix
@@ -17,7 +17,11 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook automake pkgconfig ];
   hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-tcl=${tcl}/lib --with-tk=${tk}/lib --with-ngspice=${getBin ngspice}/bin/ngspice";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--with-tcl=${tcl}/lib"
+    "--with-tk=${tk}/lib"
+    "--with-ngspice=${getBin ngspice}/bin/ngspice"
+  ];
 
   buildInputs = with xorg; [ cairo ghostscript libSM libXt libICE libX11 libXpm tcl tk zlib ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/logic/eprover/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/logic/eprover/default.nix
index 95f5385fac3..0e978f2d5c9 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/logic/eprover/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/logic/eprover/default.nix
@@ -14,7 +14,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   preConfigure = ''
     sed -e 's/ *CC *= *gcc$//' -i Makefile.vars
   '';
-  configureFlags = "--exec-prefix=$(out) --man-prefix=$(out)/share/man";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--exec-prefix=$(out)"
+    "--man-prefix=$(out)/share/man"
+  ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Automated theorem prover for full first-order logic with equality";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/logic/hol/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/logic/hol/default.nix
index 5eb33daefe8..d6a1eb6cbf7 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/logic/hol/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/logic/hol/default.nix
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ in
 
 let
   polymlEnableShared = with pkgs; lib.overrideDerivation polyml (attrs: {
-    configureFlags = "--enable-shared";
+    configureFlags = [ "--enable-shared" ];
   });
 in
 
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/math/cbc/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/math/cbc/default.nix
index 689261abc66..93aefbca216 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/math/cbc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/math/cbc/default.nix
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     sha256 = "1w8axdzm05xf5y13c31w7rc5z6ywxqxiwafnxcq3p195kgj0915a";
   };
 
-  configureFlags = "-C";
+  configureFlags = [ "-C" ];
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/math/ginac/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/math/ginac/default.nix
index 944460de9c7..18b13e11d35 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/math/ginac/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/math/ginac/default.nix
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   preConfigure = "patchShebangs ginsh";
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-rpath";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-rpath" ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "GiNaC is Not a CAS";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/misc/boinc/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/misc/boinc/default.nix
index a1b8769617c..01bd1c6fd80 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/misc/boinc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/misc/boinc/default.nix
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-server";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-server" ];
 
   meta = {
     description = "Free software for distributed and grid computing";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/kino/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/video/kino/default.nix
index 3d2bf1f1a4f..6c473e2d8dc 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/video/kino/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/video/kino/default.nix
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   buildInputs = [ gtk2 libglade libxml2 libraw1394 libsamplerate libdv
       pkgconfig perl perlXMLParser libavc1394 libiec61883 intltool libXv gettext libX11 glib cairo ffmpeg libv4l ]; # TODOoptional packages 
 
-  configureFlags = "--enable-local-ffmpeg=no";
+  configureFlags = [ "--enable-local-ffmpeg=no" ];
 
   hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/xine-ui/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/video/xine-ui/default.nix
index b75145a3e4a..69fc68a69de 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/video/xine-ui/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/video/xine-ui/default.nix
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   patchPhase = ''sed -e '/curl\/types\.h/d' -i src/xitk/download.c'';
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-readline=${readline.dev}";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-readline=${readline.dev}" ];
   
   LIRC_CFLAGS="-I${lirc}/include";
   LIRC_LIBS="-L ${lirc}/lib -llirc_client";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/singularity/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/singularity/default.nix
index ff05cb75706..fccb389071c 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/singularity/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/singularity/default.nix
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     patchShebangs .
   '';
 
-  configureFlags = "--localstatedir=/var";
+  configureFlags = [ "--localstatedir=/var" ];
   installFlags = "CONTAINER_MOUNTDIR=dummy CONTAINER_FINALDIR=dummy CONTAINER_OVERLAY=dummy SESSIONDIR=dummy";
 
   fixupPhase = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/data/icons/tango-icon-theme/default.nix b/pkgs/data/icons/tango-icon-theme/default.nix
index 928c5396b61..d38f6485f13 100644
--- a/pkgs/data/icons/tango-icon-theme/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/data/icons/tango-icon-theme/default.nix
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ intltool iconnamingutils imagemagick librsvg ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--enable-png-creation";
+  configureFlags = [ "--enable-png-creation" ];
 
   postInstall = '''${gtk.out}/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache' "$out/share/icons/Tango" '';
 
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/gnome-control-center/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/gnome-control-center/default.nix
index c4f6ad8207c..b4d82e0cffb 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/gnome-control-center/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/gnome-control-center/default.nix
@@ -18,5 +18,5 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
                   libgnomeui librsvg gnome_menus gnome-desktop gnome_panel metacity gnome-settings-daemon
                   libSM docbook_xml_dtd_412
   ];
-  configureFlags = "--disable-scrollkeeper";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-scrollkeeper" ];
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/gnome-desktop/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/gnome-desktop/default.nix
index b99f23555d3..d3d36499886 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/gnome-desktop/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/gnome-desktop/default.nix
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     sha256 = "17bkng6ay37n3492lr9wpb49kms6gh554rn9gbjs27zygvvfrjsm";
   };
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-scrollkeeper";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-scrollkeeper" ];
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ python libxml2Python libxslt which libX11 gtk
                   intltool GConf gnome-doc-utils ];
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/libgweather/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/libgweather/default.nix
index 47f2b8c90fb..b358c312674 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/libgweather/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/libgweather/default.nix
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     url = "mirror://gnome/sources/libgweather/2.30/${name}.tar.bz2";
     sha256 = "0k16lpdyy8as8wgc5dqpy5b8i9i4mrl77qx8db23fgs2c533fddq";
   };
-  configureFlags = "--with-zoneinfo-dir=${stdenv.glibc}/share/zoneinfo";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-zoneinfo-dir=${stdenv.glibc}/share/zoneinfo" ];
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ libxml2 gtk intltool GConf libsoup libtasn1 nettle gmp ];
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/scrollkeeper/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/scrollkeeper/default.nix
index 62a224eb504..4b769f5d0ae 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/scrollkeeper/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/scrollkeeper/default.nix
@@ -15,5 +15,5 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ perl perlXMLParser libxml2 libxslt gettext];
-  configureFlags = "--with-xml-catalog=${docbook_xml_dtd_42}/xml/dtd/docbook/catalog.xml";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-xml-catalog=${docbook_xml_dtd_42}/xml/dtd/docbook/catalog.xml" ];
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/zenity/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/zenity/default.nix
index 0233f6340f5..5eb0068e2cd 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/zenity/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/zenity/default.nix
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     sha256 = "1b0qxb07wif0ds1pl8xk3fq9p874j89rf718lii4ndh7382bwf48";
   };
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-scrollkeeper";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-scrollkeeper" ];
   buildInputs = [ gtk libglade libxml2 libxslt libX11 docbook_xml_dtd_412 ];
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig intltool gnome-doc-utils which ];
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/folks/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/folks/default.nix
index bea40431a24..981b8504487 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/folks/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/folks/default.nix
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
                   vala libsecret libxml2 libsoup nspr nss intltool db ];
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-fatal-warnings";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-fatal-warnings" ];
 
   NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = ["-I${nss.dev}/include/nss"
                         "-I${dbus-glib.dev}/include/dbus-1.0" "-I${dbus.dev}/include/dbus-1.0"];
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/rest/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/rest/default.nix
index 9cd36cd7750..aeef5114435 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/rest/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/core/rest/default.nix
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ glib libsoup gobjectIntrospection];
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-ca-certificates=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-ca-certificates=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt" ];
 
   passthru = {
     updateScript = gnome3.updateScript {
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/mate/mate-control-center/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/mate/mate-control-center/default.nix
index 36bfa596e19..bc5a78c5a4b 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/mate/mate-control-center/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/mate/mate-control-center/default.nix
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     mate.mate-settings-daemon
   ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-update-mimedb";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-update-mimedb" ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Utilities to configure the MATE desktop";
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/mate/mate-screensaver/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/mate/mate-screensaver/default.nix
index 3289ff5081b..b4ace8cc925 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/mate/mate-screensaver/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/mate/mate-screensaver/default.nix
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     mate.mate-menus
   ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--without-console-kit";
+  configureFlags = [ "--without-console-kit" ];
 
   makeFlags = "DBUS_SESSION_SERVICE_DIR=$(out)/etc";
 
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/mate/mate-system-monitor/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/mate/mate-system-monitor/default.nix
index 0f281cfc004..c3f29dff631 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/mate/mate-system-monitor/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/mate/mate-system-monitor/default.nix
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     systemd
   ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--enable-systemd";
+  configureFlags = [ "--enable-systemd" ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "System monitor for the MATE desktop";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/opa/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/opa/default.nix
index 7b9e00b105d..06ed7c51e9a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/opa/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/opa/default.nix
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   prefixKey = "-prefix ";
 
-  configureFlags = "-ocamlfind ${ocamlPackages.findlib}/bin/ocamlfind ";
+  configureFlags = [ "-ocamlfind ${ocamlPackages.findlib}/bin/ocamlfind" ];
 
   buildInputs = [ which perl jdk openssl coreutils zlib ncurses
     makeWrapper gcc binutils gnumake nodejs
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/swi-prolog/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/swi-prolog/default.nix
index 670a00e250f..77d943110d1 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/swi-prolog/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/swi-prolog/default.nix
@@ -20,7 +20,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-world --enable-gmp --enable-shared";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--with-world"
+    "--enable-gmp"
+    "--enable-shared"
+  ];
 
   buildFlags = "world";
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/urweb/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/urweb/default.nix
index 8426635ce96..68fa3d3613f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/urweb/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/urweb/default.nix
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sed -e 's@/usr/bin/file@${file}/bin/file@g' -i configure
   '';
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-openssl=${openssl.dev}";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-openssl=${openssl.dev}" ];
 
   preConfigure = ''
     export PGHEADER="${postgresql}/include/libpq-fe.h";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/yap/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/yap/default.nix
index 7c6b545285c..3ad0bc25787 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/yap/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/yap/default.nix
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ readline gmp zlib ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--enable-tabling=yes";
+  configureFlags = [ "--enable-tabling=yes" ];
 
   NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = [ "-fpermissive" ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/coq-modules/coquelicot/default.nix b/pkgs/development/coq-modules/coquelicot/default.nix
index c4dc8b5fc5b..baad637cbb7 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/coq-modules/coquelicot/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/coq-modules/coquelicot/default.nix
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   buildInputs = [ coq ];
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ ssreflect ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--libdir=$out/lib/coq/${coq.coq-version}/user-contrib/Coquelicot";
+  configureFlags = [ "--libdir=$out/lib/coq/${coq.coq-version}/user-contrib/Coquelicot" ];
   buildPhase = "./remake";
   installPhase = "./remake install";
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/clisp/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/clisp/default.nix
index 9ab43e7392d..0a54a916ba7 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/clisp/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/clisp/default.nix
@@ -67,15 +67,15 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     substituteInPlace modules/bindings/glibc/linux.lisp --replace "(def-c-type __swblk_t)" ""
   '';
 
-  configureFlags = "builddir"
-  + stdenv.lib.optionalString (!dllSupport) " --without-dynamic-modules"
-  + stdenv.lib.optionalString (readline != null) " --with-readline"
+  configureFlags = [ "builddir" ]
+  ++ stdenv.lib.optional (!dllSupport) "--without-dynamic-modules"
+  ++ stdenv.lib.optional (readline != null) "--with-readline"
   # --with-dynamic-ffi can only exist with --with-ffcall - foreign.d does not compile otherwise
-  + stdenv.lib.optionalString (ffcallAvailable && (libffi != null)) " --with-dynamic-ffi"
-  + stdenv.lib.optionalString ffcallAvailable " --with-ffcall"
-  + stdenv.lib.optionalString (!ffcallAvailable) " --without-ffcall"
-  + stdenv.lib.concatMapStrings (x: " --with-module=" + x) withModules
-  + stdenv.lib.optionalString threadSupport " --with-threads=POSIX_THREADS";
+  ++ stdenv.lib.optional (ffcallAvailable && (libffi != null)) "--with-dynamic-ffi"
+  ++ stdenv.lib.optional ffcallAvailable "--with-ffcall"
+  ++ stdenv.lib.optional (!ffcallAvailable) "--without-ffcall"
+  ++ builtins.map (x: "--with-module=" + x) withModules
+  ++ stdenv.lib.optional threadSupport "--with-threads=POSIX_THREADS";
 
   preBuild = ''
     sed -e '/avcall.h/a\#include "config.h"' -i src/foreign.d
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/clisp/hg.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/clisp/hg.nix
index 9839220796c..47dbf8a225c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/clisp/hg.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/clisp/hg.nix
@@ -62,15 +62,15 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     substituteInPlace modules/bindings/glibc/linux.lisp --replace "(def-c-type __swblk_t)" ""
   '';
 
-  configureFlags = "builddir"
-  + stdenv.lib.optionalString (!dllSupport) " --without-dynamic-modules"
-  + stdenv.lib.optionalString (readline != null) " --with-readline"
+  configureFlags = [ "builddir" ]
+  ++ stdenv.lib.optional (!dllSupport) "--without-dynamic-modules"
+  ++ stdenv.lib.optional (readline != null) "--with-readline"
   # --with-dynamic-ffi can only exist with --with-ffcall - foreign.d does not compile otherwise
-  + stdenv.lib.optionalString (ffcallAvailable && (libffi != null)) " --with-dynamic-ffi"
-  + stdenv.lib.optionalString ffcallAvailable " --with-ffcall"
-  + stdenv.lib.optionalString (!ffcallAvailable) " --without-ffcall"
-  + stdenv.lib.concatMapStrings (x: " --with-module=" + x) withModules
-  + stdenv.lib.optionalString threadSupport " --with-threads=POSIX_THREADS";
+  ++ stdenv.lib.optional (ffcallAvailable && (libffi != null)) "--with-dynamic-ffi"
+  ++ stdenv.lib.optional ffcallAvailable "--with-ffcall"
+  ++ stdenv.lib.optional (!ffcallAvailable) "--without-ffcall"
+  ++ builtins.map (x: " --with-module=" + x) withModules
+  ++ stdenv.lib.optional threadSupport "--with-threads=POSIX_THREADS";
 
   preBuild = ''
     sed -e '/avcall.h/a\#include "config.h"' -i src/foreign.d
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/aalib/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/aalib/default.nix
index 0209c41abee..8b1878b0cc3 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/aalib/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/aalib/default.nix
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   buildInputs = [ ncurses ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--without-x --with-ncurses=${ncurses.dev}";
+  configureFlags = [ "--without-x" "--with-ncurses=${ncurses.dev}" ];
 
   postInstall = ''
     mkdir -p $dev/bin
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/agg/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/agg/default.nix
index ab309858095..c0539aeed47 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/agg/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/agg/default.nix
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sh autogen.sh
   '';
 
-  configureFlags = "--x-includes=${libX11.dev}/include --x-libraries=${libX11.out}/lib --enable-examples=no";
+  configureFlags = [ "--x-includes=${libX11.dev}/include" "--x-libraries=${libX11.out}/lib" "--enable-examples=no" ];
 
   # libtool --tag=CXX --mode=link g++ -g -O2 libexamples.la ../src/platform/X11/libaggplatformX11.la ../src/libagg.la -o alpha_mask2 alpha_mask2.o
   # libtool: error: cannot find the library 'libexamples.la'
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/arb/git.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/arb/git.nix
index 87b884fece1..a281e2a085f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/arb/git.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/arb/git.nix
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     rev = "10bc615ce5999caf4723444b2b1219b74781d8a4";
     sha256 = "1xb40x3hv9nh76aizhskj5gdhalgn7r95a7zji2nn4ih3lmh40hl";
   };
-  buildInputs = [mpir gmp mpfr flint];
-  configureFlags = "--with-gmp=${gmp} --with-mpir=${mpir} --with-mpfr=${mpfr} --with-flint=${flint}";
+  buildInputs = [ mpir gmp mpfr flint ];
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-gmp=${gmp}" "--with-mpir=${mpir}" "--with-mpfr=${mpfr}" "--with-flint=${flint}" ];
   meta = {
     inherit version;
     description = ''A library for arbitrary-precision interval arithmetic'';
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/beecrypt/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/beecrypt/default.nix
index a48de9a03f2..238901e2ec4 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/beecrypt/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/beecrypt/default.nix
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     url = mirror://sourceforge/beecrypt/beecrypt-4.2.1.tar.gz;
     sha256 = "0pf5k1c4nsj77jfq5ip0ra1gzx2q47xaa0s008fnn6hd11b1yvr8";
   };
-  buildInputs = [m4];
-  configureFlags = "--disable-optimized --enable-static";
+  buildInputs = [ m4 ];
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-optimized" "--enable-static" ];
 
   meta = {
     platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/buddy/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/buddy/default.nix
index 00e236eba8c..a8555a349d0 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/buddy/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/buddy/default.nix
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ bison ];
   patches = [ ./gcc-4.3.3-fixes.patch ];
-  configureFlags = "CFLAGS=-O3 CXXFLAGS=-O3";
+  configureFlags = [ "CFLAGS=-O3" "CXXFLAGS=-O3" ];
   doCheck = true;
 
   meta = {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/clearsilver/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/clearsilver/default.nix
index cd1789a13bb..fd4d8d5ca31 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/clearsilver/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/clearsilver/default.nix
@@ -10,7 +10,14 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   PYTHON_SITE = "$(out)/site-packages";
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-python=${python}/bin/python --disable-apache --disable-perl --disable-ruby --disable-java --disable-csharp";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--with-python=${python}/bin/python"
+    "--disable-apache"
+    "--disable-perl"
+    "--disable-ruby"
+    "--disable-java"
+    "--disable-csharp"
+  ];
 
   preInstall = ''
     mkdir -p $out
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/cloog-ppl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/cloog-ppl/default.nix
index 0ce0af97ec9..47037339d41 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/cloog-ppl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/cloog-ppl/default.nix
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   patches = [ ./fix-ppl-version.patch ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-ppl=${ppl}";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-ppl=${ppl}" ];
 
   preAutoreconf = ''
     touch NEWS ChangeLog AUTHORS
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/cwiid/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/cwiid/default.nix
index 606058da854..ee646b24c81 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/cwiid/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/cwiid/default.nix
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--without-python";
+  configureFlags = [ "--without-python" ];
 
   prePatch = ''
     sed -i -e '/$(LDCONFIG)/d' common/include/lib.mak.in
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/dbus-cplusplus/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/dbus-cplusplus/default.nix
index 05140581143..6190f6ddc52 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/dbus-cplusplus/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/dbus-cplusplus/default.nix
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ dbus glib expat ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-ecore";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-ecore" ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = http://dbus-cplusplus.sourceforge.net;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/fflas-ffpack/1.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/fflas-ffpack/1.nix
index 5efa378ff5f..eae0326c832 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/fflas-ffpack/1.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/fflas-ffpack/1.nix
@@ -9,7 +9,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   };
   nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ givaro_3_7 openblas gmpxx];
-  configureFlags = "--with-blas=-lopenblas --with-gmp=${gmpxx.dev} --with-givaro=${givaro_3_7}";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--with-blas=-lopenblas"
+    "--with-gmp=${gmpxx.dev}"
+    "--with-givaro=${givaro_3_7}"
+  ];
   meta = {
     inherit version;
     description = ''Finite Field Linear Algebra Subroutines'';
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gamin/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gamin/default.nix
index 2af7bbce18b..a4e0bcfb52b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gamin/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gamin/default.nix
@@ -14,7 +14,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
 
   # `_GNU_SOURCE' is needed, e.g., to get `struct ucred' from
   # <sys/socket.h> with Glibc 2.9.
-  configureFlags = "--disable-debug --with-python=${python} CPPFLAGS=-D_GNU_SOURCE";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--disable-debug"
+    "--with-python=${python}"
+    "CPPFLAGS=-D_GNU_SOURCE"
+  ];
 
   patches = [ ./deadlock.patch ]
     ++ map fetchurl (import ./debian-patches.nix)
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gegl/3.0.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gegl/3.0.nix
index 287c3324386..54ee7662d06 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gegl/3.0.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gegl/3.0.nix
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
 
   # needs fonts otherwise  don't know how to pass them
-  configureFlags = "--disable-docs";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-docs" ];
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gegl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gegl/default.nix
index ccfa7e53611..e90cc257e7e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gegl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gegl/default.nix
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   })];
 
   # needs fonts otherwise  don't know how to pass them
-  configureFlags = "--disable-docs";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-docs" ];
 
   buildInputs = [ babl libpng cairo libjpeg librsvg pango gtk2 bzip2 intltool libintl ]
     ++ stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin OpenGL;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gsasl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gsasl/default.nix
index 9c19bdbdc29..71da2c716f8 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gsasl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gsasl/default.nix
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ libidn kerberos ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-gssapi-impl=mit";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-gssapi-impl=mit" ];
 
   doCheck = true;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/icu/base.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/icu/base.nix
index 705fb816b2e..b8ad48326b2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/icu/base.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/icu/base.nix
@@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ let
       sed -e 's/LDFLAGSICUDT=-nodefaultlibs -nostdlib/LDFLAGSICUDT=/' -i config/mh-linux
     '';
 
-    configureFlags = "--disable-debug" +
-      stdenv.lib.optionalString (stdenv.isFreeBSD || stdenv.isDarwin) " --enable-rpath" +
-      stdenv.lib.optionalString (buildPlatform != hostPlatform) " --with-cross-build=${nativeBuildRoot}";
+    configureFlags = [ "--disable-debug" ]
+      ++ stdenv.lib.optional (stdenv.isFreeBSD || stdenv.isDarwin) "--enable-rpath"
+      ++ stdenv.lib.optional (buildPlatform != hostPlatform) "--with-cross-build=${nativeBuildRoot}";
 
     enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/imlib/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/imlib/default.nix
index 624e401b62f..2b95742c44c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/imlib/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/imlib/default.nix
@@ -7,10 +7,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     sha256 = "0ggjxyvgp4pxc0b88v40xj9daz90518ydnycw7qax011gxpr12d3";
   };
 
-  configureFlags = "
-    --disable-shm
-    --x-includes=${libX11.dev}/include
-    --x-libraries=${libX11.out}/lib";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--disable-shm"
+    "--x-includes=${libX11.dev}/include"
+    "--x-libraries=${libX11.out}/lib"
+  ];
 
   buildInputs = [libjpeg libXext libX11 xextproto libtiff libungif libpng];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/jasper/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/jasper/default.nix
index bc18a13884b..de4848c7dda 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/jasper/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/jasper/default.nix
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ libjpeg ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--enable-shared";
+  configureFlags = [ "--enable-shared" ];
 
   outputs = [ "bin" "dev" "out" "man" ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/lensfun/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/lensfun/default.nix
index e9ba4ae5ac2..c815262ac0e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/lensfun/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/lensfun/default.nix
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ glib zlib libpng cmake gnumake3 ];
 
-  configureFlags = "-v";
+  configureFlags = [ "-v" ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     platforms = platforms.linux;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libagar/libagar_test.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libagar/libagar_test.nix
index dea102774d0..c1e9ba7d1c7 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libagar/libagar_test.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libagar/libagar_test.nix
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     cat configure.in | ${bsdbuild}/bin/mkconfigure > configure
   '';
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-agar=${libagar}";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-agar=${libagar}" ];
 
   buildInputs = [ perl bsdbuild libagar libjpeg libpng openssl ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libcanberra/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libcanberra/default.nix
index 0d1772d0c54..8addb6128f0 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libcanberra/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libcanberra/default.nix
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     ++ lib.optional stdenv.isLinux libcap
     ++ lib.optional withAlsa alsaLib;
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-oss";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-oss" ];
 
   patchFlags = "-p0";
   patches = stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libcmis/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libcmis/default.nix
index 9ab42c7fd1d..d62d1a80264 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libcmis/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libcmis/default.nix
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ boost libxml2 curl ];
-  configureFlags = "--without-man --with-boost=${boost.dev} --disable-werror --disable-tests";
+  configureFlags = [ "--without-man" "--with-boost=${boost.dev}" "--disable-werror" "--disable-tests" ];
 
   # Cppcheck cannot find all the include files (use --check-config for details)
   doCheck = false;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libextractor/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libextractor/default.nix
index 88b15b58c43..e3f3604f94e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libextractor/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libextractor/default.nix
@@ -27,10 +27,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
    ] ++ stdenv.lib.optionals gtkSupport [ glib gtk3 ]
      ++ stdenv.lib.optionals videoSupport [ ffmpeg libmpeg2 ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-ltdl-install "
-    + "--with-ltdl-include=${libtool}/include "
-    + "--with-ltdl-lib=${libtool.lib}/lib "
-    + "--enable-xpdf";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--disable-ltdl-install"
+    "--with-ltdl-include=${libtool}/include"
+    "--with-ltdl-lib=${libtool.lib}/lib"
+    "--enable-xpdf"
+  ];
 
   # Checks need to be run after "make install", otherwise plug-ins are not in
   # the search path, etc.
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libmp3splt/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libmp3splt/default.nix
index 7e5ac2a2297..af8297e9854 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libmp3splt/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libmp3splt/default.nix
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ libtool ];
   buildInputs = [ libmad libid3tag ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-pcre";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-pcre" ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage    = https://sourceforge.net/projects/mp3splt/;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libpng/12.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libpng/12.nix
index 01a828f95da..0153ff8327b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libpng/12.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libpng/12.nix
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   passthru = { inherit zlib; };
 
-  configureFlags = "--enable-static";
+  configureFlags = [ "--enable-static" ];
 
   postInstall = ''mv "$out/bin" "$dev/bin"'';
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libpqxx/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libpqxx/default.nix
index 5c4699d2626..5afed2b2a2f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libpqxx/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libpqxx/default.nix
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     patchShebangs .
   '';
 
-  configureFlags = "--enable-shared";
+  configureFlags = [ "--enable-shared" ];
 
   meta = {
     description = "A C++ library to access PostgreSQL databases";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libspatialite/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libspatialite/default.nix
index b75baf149e1..8e7b539527e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libspatialite/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libspatialite/default.nix
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ libxml2 sqlite zlib proj geos libiconv ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-freexl";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-freexl" ];
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libzmf/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libzmf/default.nix
index 6050a7080df..695effe2ea9 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libzmf/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libzmf/default.nix
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "08mg5kmkjrmqrd8j5rkzw9vdqlvibhb1ynp6bmfxnzq5rcq1l197";
   };
 
-  buildInputs = [boost icu libpng librevenge zlib cppunit];
-  nativeBuildInputs = [doxygen pkgconfig];
-  configureFlags = " --disable-werror ";
+  buildInputs = [ boost icu libpng librevenge zlib cppunit ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ doxygen pkgconfig ];
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-werror" ];
 
   meta = {
     inherit version;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/loudmouth/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/loudmouth/default.nix
index e014e38c3f9..aecd75656da 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/loudmouth/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/loudmouth/default.nix
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   patches = [
   ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-ssl=openssl";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-ssl=openssl" ];
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ openssl libidn glib zlib ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/nlopt/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/nlopt/default.nix
index 3696578b8e0..904cdc6a3da 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/nlopt/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/nlopt/default.nix
@@ -10,11 +10,18 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ octave ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-cxx --enable-shared --with-pic --without-guile --without-python
-  --without-matlab " +
-    stdenv.lib.optionalString (octave != null) ("--with-octave " +
-        "M_INSTALL_DIR=$(out)/${octave.sitePath}/m " +
-        "OCT_INSTALL_DIR=$(out)/${octave.sitePath}/oct ");
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--with-cxx"
+    "--enable-shared"
+    "--with-pic"
+    "--without-guile"
+    "--without-python"
+    "--without-matlab"
+  ] ++ stdenv.lib.optionals (octave != null) [
+    "--with-octave"
+    "M_INSTALL_DIR=$(out)/${octave.sitePath}/m"
+    "OCT_INSTALL_DIR=$(out)/${octave.sitePath}/oct"
+  ];
 
   meta = {
     homepage = http://ab-initio.mit.edu/nlopt/;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/ntrack/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/ntrack/default.nix
index fb36839fe23..44c8f51e856 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/ntrack/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/ntrack/default.nix
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig python ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--without-gobject CFLAGS=--std=gnu99";
+  configureFlags = [ "--without-gobject" "CFLAGS=--std=gnu99" ];
 
   # Remove this patch after version 016
   patches = [ ./libnl-fix.patch ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/openwsman/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/openwsman/default.nix
index 1aa0f268457..2122a7b23f1 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/openwsman/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/openwsman/default.nix
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     cmakeFlags="$cmakeFlags -DPACKAGE_ARCHITECTURE=$(uname -m)";
   '';
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-more-warnings";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-more-warnings" ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description  = "Openwsman server implementation and client API with bindings";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/rarian/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/rarian/default.nix
index 484e5856872..4446226fede 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/rarian/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/rarian/default.nix
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ perl perlXMLParser libxml2 libxslt];
-  configureFlags = "--with-xml-catalog=${docbook_xml_dtd_42}/xml/dtd/docbook/docbook.cat";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-xml-catalog=${docbook_xml_dtd_42}/xml/dtd/docbook/docbook.cat" ];
 
   passthru = {
     updateScript = gnome3.updateScript {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/readosm/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/readosm/default.nix
index 5a4306a63a7..1c777e849a4 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/readosm/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/readosm/default.nix
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ expat zlib geos libspatialite ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-freexl";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-freexl" ];
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/biology/htslib/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/biology/htslib/default.nix
index 2144a7f7893..48548bd7265 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/biology/htslib/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/biology/htslib/default.nix
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ zlib bzip2 lzma curl ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--enable-libcurl"; # optional but strongly recommended
+  configureFlags = [ "--enable-libcurl" ]; # optional but strongly recommended
 
   installFlags = "prefix=$(out)";
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/liblbfgs/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/liblbfgs/default.nix
index fe90fa2e171..33e8baada83 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/liblbfgs/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/liblbfgs/default.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "liblbfgs-1.10";
 
-  configureFlags = "--enable-sse2";
+  configureFlags = [ "--enable-sse2" ];
   src = fetchurl {
     url = https://github.com/downloads/chokkan/liblbfgs/liblbfgs-1.10.tar.gz;
     sha256 = "1kv8d289rbz38wrpswx5dkhr2yh4fg4h6sszkp3fawxm09sann21";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/snack/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/snack/default.nix
index 1b5564dc159..acf10cc497c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/snack/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/snack/default.nix
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     sha256 = "07p89jv9qnjqkszws9sssq93ayvwpdnkcxrvyicbm4mb8x2pdzjb";
   };
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-tcl=${tcl}/lib --with-tk=${tk}/lib";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-tcl=${tcl}/lib" "--with-tk=${tk}/lib" ];
 
   postUnpack = ''sourceRoot="$sourceRoot/unix"'';
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/spatialite-tools/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/spatialite-tools/default.nix
index 9070423d8c7..4ea7de0b1a3 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/spatialite-tools/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/spatialite-tools/default.nix
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ sqlite expat zlib proj geos libspatialite readosm ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-freexl";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-freexl" ];
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/sword/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/sword/default.nix
index 0c3bb3b1306..afb168d5aa2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/sword/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/sword/default.nix
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     })
   ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--without-conf --enable-tests=no CXXFLAGS=-Wno-unused-but-set-variable";
+  configureFlags = [ "--without-conf" "--enable-tests=no CXXFLAGS=-Wno-unused-but-set-variable" ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "A software framework that allows research manipulation of Biblical texts";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/thrift/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/thrift/default.nix
index cb200b82e20..dee441a0c2f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/thrift/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/thrift/default.nix
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   # TODO: package boost-test, so we can run the test suite. (Currently it fails
   # to find libboost_unit_test_framework.a.)
-  configureFlags = "--enable-tests=no";
+  configureFlags = [ "--enable-tests=no" ];
   doCheck = false;
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/vapoursynth-mvtools/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/vapoursynth-mvtools/default.nix
index 2fa6710c4fa..c2ab61c6bd1 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/vapoursynth-mvtools/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/vapoursynth-mvtools/default.nix
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     yasm vapoursynth fftwFloat
   ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--libdir=$(out)/lib/vapoursynth";
+  configureFlags = [ "--libdir=$(out)/lib/vapoursynth" ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "A set of filters for motion estimation and compensation";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/wayland/1.9.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/wayland/1.9.nix
index 3555a923228..750a786c3fc 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/wayland/1.9.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/wayland/1.9.nix
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "1yhy62vkbq8j8c9zaa6yzvn75cd99kfa8n2zfdwl80x019r711ww";
   };
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-scanner --disable-documentation";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-scanner" "--disable-documentation" ];
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/misc/avr/binutils/default.nix b/pkgs/development/misc/avr/binutils/default.nix
index 0826b83ed19..4d569608091 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/misc/avr/binutils/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/misc/avr/binutils/default.nix
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     url = "mirror://gnu/binutils/binutils-${version}.tar.bz2";
     sha256 = "028cklfqaab24glva1ks2aqa1zxa6w6xmc8q34zs1sb7h22dxspg";
   };
-  configureFlags = "--target=avr --enable-languages=c,c++";
+  configureFlags = [ "--target=avr" "--enable-languages=c,c++" ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "the GNU Binutils for AVR microcontrollers";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/bap/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/bap/default.nix
index 72c426ce037..445ff3ecb18 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/bap/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/bap/default.nix
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   disableIda = "--disable-ida --disable-fsi-benchmark";
 
-  configureFlags = "--enable-everything ${disableIda} --with-llvm-config=${llvm_38}/bin/llvm-config";
+  configureFlags = [ "--enable-everything ${disableIda}" "--with-llvm-config=${llvm_38}/bin/llvm-config" ];
 
   BAPBUILDFLAGS = "-j $(NIX_BUILD_CORES)";
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/fileutils/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/fileutils/default.nix
index a7dc5ef0191..8c9aa46d9a0 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/fileutils/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/fileutils/default.nix
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   buildInputs = [ ocaml findlib ocamlbuild ounit ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--enable-tests";
+  configureFlags = [ "--enable-tests" ];
   doCheck = true;
   checkTarget = "test";
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/lablgtk/2.14.0.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/lablgtk/2.14.0.nix
index 5dc303b59f4..55a4a02f7ff 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/lablgtk/2.14.0.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/lablgtk/2.14.0.nix
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ ocaml findlib gtk2 libgnomecanvas libglade gtksourceview camlp4 ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-libdir=$(out)/lib/ocaml/${ocaml.version}/site-lib";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-libdir=$(out)/lib/ocaml/${ocaml.version}/site-lib" ];
   buildFlags = "world";
 
   preInstall = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/lablgtk/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/lablgtk/default.nix
index ff42af0c0e4..6b01929db76 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/lablgtk/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/lablgtk/default.nix
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ ocaml findlib gtk2 libgnomecanvas libglade gtksourceview ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-libdir=$(out)/lib/ocaml/${ocaml.version}/site-lib";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-libdir=$(out)/lib/ocaml/${ocaml.version}/site-lib" ];
   buildFlags = "world";
 
   preInstall = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocsigen-server/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocsigen-server/default.nix
index efbb1230497..474f69ba918 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocsigen-server/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocsigen-server/default.nix
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   ocaml_sqlite3 tree uutf makeWrapper camlp4 pgocaml camlzip ]
   ++ (param.buildInputs or []);
 
-  configureFlags = "--root $(out) --prefix /";
+  configureFlags = [ "--root $(out) --prefix /" ];
 
   dontAddPrefix = true;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/qcheck/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/qcheck/default.nix
index 20100a9b2eb..dfe7ec84d63 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/qcheck/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/qcheck/default.nix
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   buildInputs = [ ocaml findlib ocamlbuild ounit ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--enable-tests";
+  configureFlags = [ "--enable-tests" ];
 
   doCheck = true;
   checkPhase = "ocaml setup.ml -test";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pygobject/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pygobject/default.nix
index 796fc992a7d..56e8f1fa5eb 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pygobject/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pygobject/default.nix
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     ./pygobject-2.28.6-gio-types-2.32.patch
   ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-introspection";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-introspection" ];
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ glib ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/documentation/gnome-doc-utils/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/documentation/gnome-doc-utils/default.nix
index 7e8a4159072..9b16d55d413 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/documentation/gnome-doc-utils/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/documentation/gnome-doc-utils/default.nix
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ python2Packages.buildPythonApplication {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ intltool pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ libxslt ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-scrollkeeper";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-scrollkeeper" ];
 
   preBuild = ''
     substituteInPlace xml2po/xml2po/Makefile --replace '-e "s+^#!.*python.*+#!$(PYTHON)+"' '-e "s\"^#!.*python.*\"#!$(PYTHON)\""'
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/cscope/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/cscope/default.nix
index 0b1bbf5f9e4..52d3adf3bec 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/cscope/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/cscope/default.nix
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "1byk29rcpyygrnr03h5j3y8j0aqxldd9dr5ihi9q982sy28x12a8";
   };
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-ncurses=${ncurses.dev}";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-ncurses=${ncurses.dev}" ];
 
   buildInputs = [ ncurses ];
   nativeBuildInputs = stdenv.lib.optional emacsSupport emacs;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/ddd/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/ddd/default.nix
index 9375dfb20cd..7238bcdeb6b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/ddd/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/ddd/default.nix
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "0p5nx387857w3v2jbgvps2p6mlm0chajcdw5sfrddcglsxkwvmis";
   };
   buildInputs = [motif ncurses libX11 libXt];
-  configureFlags = "--with-x";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-x" ];
 
   patches = [ ./gcc44.patch ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gnum4/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gnum4/default.nix
index 9cd6e2c5e1a..7e92df1a997 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gnum4/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gnum4/default.nix
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   doCheck = false;
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-syscmd-shell=${stdenv.shell}";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-syscmd-shell=${stdenv.shell}" ];
 
   # Upstream is aware of it; it may be in the next release.
   patches = [ ./s_isdir.patch ] ++ stdenv.lib.optional hostPlatform.isDarwin stdenv.secure-format-patch;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/swig/2.x.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/swig/2.x.nix
index 6dbaca26c81..acf1988c947 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/swig/2.x.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/swig/2.x.nix
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ autoconf automake libtool bison ];
   buildInputs = [ pcre ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--without-tcl";
+  configureFlags = [ "--without-tcl" ];
 
   postPatch = ''
     # Disable ccache documentation as it need yodl
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/swig/3.x.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/swig/3.x.nix
index 48a2e7bd2cb..077d037aa97 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/swig/3.x.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/swig/3.x.nix
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ autoconf automake libtool bison ];
   buildInputs = [ pcre ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--without-tcl";
+  configureFlags = [ "--without-tcl" ];
 
   postPatch = ''
     # Disable ccache documentation as it need yodl
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/swig/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/swig/default.nix
index e10fd25d046..cfd1c7728cb 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/swig/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/swig/default.nix
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   # 'make check' uses boost and tcl
   buildInputs = stdenv.lib.optionals doCheck [ boost tcl ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-ccache";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-ccache" ];
 
   meta = {
     description = "Interface compiler that connects C/C++ code to higher-level languages";
diff --git a/pkgs/games/exult/default.nix b/pkgs/games/exult/default.nix
index 2fe76649d55..17469777ea4 100644
--- a/pkgs/games/exult/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/games/exult/default.nix
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "0a03a2l3ji6h48n106d4w55l8v6lni1axniafnvvv5c5n3nz5bgd";
   };
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-tools";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-tools" ];
 
   patches =
     [ # Arch Linux patch set.
diff --git a/pkgs/games/gltron/default.nix b/pkgs/games/gltron/default.nix
index 6ede118526d..610fba5057d 100644
--- a/pkgs/games/gltron/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/games/gltron/default.nix
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   '';
 
   # The build fails, unless we disable the default -Wall -Werror
-  configureFlags = "--disable-warn";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-warn" ];
 
   buildInputs = [ SDL libGLU_combined zlib libpng libvorbis libmikmod SDL_sound ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/games/typespeed/default.nix b/pkgs/games/typespeed/default.nix
index 45067d96397..6f0afc359ab 100644
--- a/pkgs/games/typespeed/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/games/typespeed/default.nix
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   patches = [ ./typespeed-config-in-home.patch ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--datadir=\${out}/share/";
-  makeFlags = ["CC=cc"];
+  configureFlags = [ "--datadir=\${out}/share/" ];
+  makeFlags = [ "CC=${stdenv.cc.targetPrefix}cc" ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "A curses based typing game";
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/drivers/xwiimote/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/drivers/xwiimote/default.nix
index 5d54d647f2b..a21584afa4c 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/drivers/xwiimote/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/drivers/xwiimote/default.nix
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ udev ncurses bluez ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-doxygen=no";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-doxygen=no" ];
 
   meta = {
     homepage = http://dvdhrm.github.io/xwiimote;
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/emulators/atari800/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/emulators/atari800/default.nix
index 9467345db1c..9e662c42304 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/emulators/atari800/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/emulators/atari800/default.nix
@@ -13,7 +13,15 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec{
 
   buildInputs = [ unzip zlib SDL readline libGLU_combined libX11 ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--target=default --with-video=sdl --with-sound=sdl --with-readline --with-opengl --with-x --enable-riodevice";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--target=default"
+    "--with-video=sdl"
+    "--with-sound=sdl"
+    "--with-readline"
+    "--with-opengl"
+    "--with-x"
+    "--enable-riodevice"
+  ];
 
   preConfigure = "cd src";
 
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/emulators/vice/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/emulators/vice/default.nix
index ae8fbe9e1f5..7cf4faf55cd 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/emulators/vice/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/emulators/vice/default.nix
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   buildInputs = [ bison flex perl libpng giflib libjpeg alsaLib readline libGLU_combined
     pkgconfig gtk2 SDL autoreconfHook libXaw ];
   dontDisableStatic = true;
-  configureFlags = "--enable-fullscreen --enable-gnomeui";
+  configureFlags = [ "--enable-fullscreen --enable-gnomeui" ];
 
   desktopItem = makeDesktopItem {
     name = "vice";
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/screensavers/vlock/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/screensavers/vlock/default.nix
index 0e5e87245f3..ae89bbd53cc 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/screensavers/vlock/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/screensavers/vlock/default.nix
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   patches = [ ./eintr.patch ];
 
-  configureFlags = "VLOCK_GROUP=root ROOT_GROUP=root";
+  configureFlags = [ "VLOCK_GROUP=root" "ROOT_GROUP=root" ];
 
   buildInputs = [ pam ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/alsa-oss/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/alsa-oss/default.nix
index a13e178e418..431353e234e 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/alsa-oss/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/alsa-oss/default.nix
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   buildInputs = [ alsaLib ncurses libsamplerate ];
   nativeBuildInputs = [ gettext ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-xmlto";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-xmlto" ];
 
   installFlags = "ASOUND_STATE_DIR=$(TMPDIR)/dummy";
 
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/alsa-utils/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/alsa-utils/default.nix
index 376c42a8f9b..86d9aeebf1b 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/alsa-utils/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/alsa-utils/default.nix
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ gettext ];
   buildInputs = [ alsaLib ncurses libsamplerate fftw ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-xmlto --with-udev-rules-dir=$(out)/lib/udev/rules.d";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-xmlto" "--with-udev-rules-dir=$(out)/lib/udev/rules.d" ];
 
   installFlags = "ASOUND_STATE_DIR=$(TMPDIR)/dummy";
 
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/drbd/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/drbd/default.nix
index 8d18d598020..c6792ea17fb 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/drbd/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/drbd/default.nix
@@ -12,7 +12,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ flex perl ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--without-distro --without-pacemaker --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--without-distro"
+    "--without-pacemaker"
+    "--localstatedir=/var"
+    "--sysconfdir=/etc"
+  ];
 
   preConfigure =
     ''
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/hwdata/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/hwdata/default.nix
index c1d324de7cf..2b296ebabca 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/hwdata/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/hwdata/default.nix
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   preConfigure = "patchShebangs ./configure";
 
-  configureFlags = "--datadir=$(prefix)/data";
+  configureFlags = [ "--datadir=$(prefix)/data" ];
 
   doCheck = false; # this does build machine-specific checks (e.g. enumerates PCI bus)
 
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/pm-utils/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/pm-utils/default.nix
index a5577b97b87..b314e8db837 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/pm-utils/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/pm-utils/default.nix
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "02qc6zaf7ams6qcc470fwb6jvr4abv3lrlx16clqpn36501rkn4f";
   };
 
-  configureFlags = "--sysconfdir=/etc";
+  configureFlags = [ "--sysconfdir=/etc" ];
 
   preConfigure =
     ''
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/pmount/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/pmount/default.nix
index 1a7a31d978a..ea34075210d 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/pmount/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/pmount/default.nix
@@ -18,13 +18,14 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ intltool utillinux ];
 
-  configureFlags = ""
-  + " --with-media-dir=${mediaDir}"
-  + " --with-lock-dir=${lockDir}"
-  + " --with-whitelist=${whiteList}"
-  + " --with-mount-prog=${utillinux}/bin/mount"
-  + " --with-umount-prog=${utillinux}/bin/umount"
-  + " --with-mount-ntfs3g=${ntfs3g}/sbin/mount.ntfs-3g";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--with-media-dir=${mediaDir}"
+    "--with-lock-dir=${lockDir}"
+    "--with-whitelist=${whiteList}"
+    "--with-mount-prog=${utillinux}/bin/mount"
+    "--with-umount-prog=${utillinux}/bin/umount"
+    "--with-mount-ntfs3g=${ntfs3g}/sbin/mount.ntfs-3g"
+  ];
 
   postConfigure = ''
     # etc/Mafile.am is hardcoded and it does not respect the --prefix option.
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/udisks/1-default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/udisks/1-default.nix
index 199523db428..bdc6a63f069 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/udisks/1-default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/udisks/1-default.nix
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--localstatedir=/var --enable-lvm2";
+  configureFlags = [ "--localstatedir=/var" "--enable-lvm2" ];
 
   meta = {
     homepage = http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/udisks;
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/windows/cygwin-setup/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/windows/cygwin-setup/default.nix
index 71b47c5a50f..3738760bb29 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/windows/cygwin-setup/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/windows/cygwin-setup/default.nix
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     });
   in map mkStatic [ zlib bzip2 lzma libgcrypt ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-shared";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-shared" ];
 
   dontDisableStatic = true;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/dict/libmaa.nix b/pkgs/servers/dict/libmaa.nix
index d35a9a68303..3c04a678def 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/dict/libmaa.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/dict/libmaa.nix
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ libtool ];
-  # configureFlags = "--datadir=/var/run/current-system/share/dictd";
+  # configureFlags = [ "--datadir=/var/run/current-system/share/dictd" ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Dict protocol server and client";
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/http/apache-modules/tomcat-connectors/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/http/apache-modules/tomcat-connectors/default.nix
index 58ae8f85b81..e569ae8f870 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/http/apache-modules/tomcat-connectors/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/http/apache-modules/tomcat-connectors/default.nix
@@ -8,7 +8,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "11khipjpy3y84j1pp7yyx76y64jccvyhh3klwzqxylff49vjc2fc";
   };
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-apxs=${apacheHttpd.dev}/bin/apxs --with-java-home=${jdk}";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--with-apxs=${apacheHttpd.dev}/bin/apxs"
+    "--with-java-home=${jdk}"
+  ];
 
   setSourceRoot = ''
     sourceRoot=$(echo */native)
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/http/pshs/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/http/pshs/default.nix
index a0a1addeeeb..5195f3145f9 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/http/pshs/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/http/pshs/default.nix
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   buildInputs = [ libevent file qrencode miniupnpc ];
 
   # SSL requires libevent at 2.1 with ssl support
-  configureFlags = "--disable-ssl";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-ssl" ];
 
   meta = {
     description = "Pretty small HTTP server - a command-line tool to share files";
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/http/yaws/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/http/yaws/default.nix
index 5f92fbf2c03..827f6122b57 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/http/yaws/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/http/yaws/default.nix
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     cd $name
   '';
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-extrainclude=${pam}/include/security";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-extrainclude=${pam}/include/security" ];
 
   buildInputs = [ erlang pam perl ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/mail/mailman/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/mail/mailman/default.nix
index 8ff20869b94..6e7c859ae8c 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/mail/mailman/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/mail/mailman/default.nix
@@ -13,9 +13,13 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   patches = [ ./fix-var-prefix.patch ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--without-permcheck --with-cgi-ext=.cgi --with-var-prefix=/var/lib/mailman";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--without-permcheck"
+    "--with-cgi-ext=.cgi"
+    "--with-var-prefix=/var/lib/mailman"
+  ];
 
-  installTargets = "doinstall";         # Leave out the 'update' target that's implied by 'install'.
+  installTargets = "doinstall"; # Leave out the 'update' target that's implied by 'install'.
 
   makeFlags = [ "DIRSETGID=:" ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/mail/petidomo/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/mail/petidomo/default.nix
index 8ccd783b6ad..c97d8e4ccf3 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/mail/petidomo/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/mail/petidomo/default.nix
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ flex bison ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-mta=${sendmailPath}";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-mta=${sendmailPath}" ];
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/zabbix/2.0.nix b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/zabbix/2.0.nix
index 9f1a2baeb9a..ce660fa6e88 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/zabbix/2.0.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/zabbix/2.0.nix
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ in
 
     inherit src preConfigure;
 
-    configureFlags = "--enable-agent";
+    configureFlags = [ "--enable-agent" ];
 
     meta = with stdenv.lib; {
       inherit branch;
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/zabbix/2.2.nix b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/zabbix/2.2.nix
index bf3849e6524..ac0e6bb81f8 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/zabbix/2.2.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/zabbix/2.2.nix
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ in
 
     inherit src preConfigure;
 
-    configureFlags = "--enable-agent";
+    configureFlags = [ "--enable-agent" ];
 
     meta = with stdenv.lib; {
       inherit branch;
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/zabbix/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/zabbix/default.nix
index be52698ed83..4b6bd5e0b25 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/zabbix/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/zabbix/default.nix
@@ -27,7 +27,12 @@ in
 
     inherit src preConfigure;
 
-    configureFlags = "--enable-agent --enable-server --with-pgsql --with-libcurl";
+    configureFlags = [
+      "--enable-agent"
+      "--enable-server"
+      "--with-pgsql"
+      "--with-libcurl"
+    ];
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
     buildInputs = [ postgresql curl openssl zlib ];
@@ -56,7 +61,7 @@ in
 
     inherit src preConfigure;
 
-    configureFlags = "--enable-agent";
+    configureFlags = [ "--enable-agent" ];
 
     meta = with stdenv.lib; {
       description = "An enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution (client-side agent)";
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/news/leafnode/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/news/leafnode/default.nix
index 6d2bb9b9e94..955547289bc 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/news/leafnode/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/news/leafnode/default.nix
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "096w4gxj08m3vwmyv4sxpmbl8dn6mzqfmrhc32jgyca6qzlrdin8";
   };
 
-  configureFlags = "--enable-runas-user=nobody";
+  configureFlags = [ "--enable-runas-user=nobody" ];
 
   prePatch = ''
     substituteInPlace Makefile.in --replace 02770 0770
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/sql/postgresql/psqlodbc/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/sql/postgresql/psqlodbc/default.nix
index 684817d309b..2364e0913bc 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/sql/postgresql/psqlodbc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/sql/postgresql/psqlodbc/default.nix
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ libiodbc postgresql openssl ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-iodbc=${libiodbc}";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-iodbc=${libiodbc}" ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = http://psqlodbc.projects.postgresql.org/;
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/sql/virtuoso/6.x.nix b/pkgs/servers/sql/virtuoso/6.x.nix
index b0b8f926d9e..eda1f060df2 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/sql/virtuoso/6.x.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/sql/virtuoso/6.x.nix
@@ -14,11 +14,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   CPP = "${stdenv.cc}/bin/gcc -E";
 
-  configureFlags = "
-    --enable-shared --disable-all-vads --with-readline=${readline.dev}
-    --disable-hslookup --disable-wbxml2 --without-iodbc
-    --enable-openssl=${openssl.dev}
-    ";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--enable-shared" "--disable-all-vads" "--with-readline=${readline.dev}"
+    "--disable-hslookup" "--disable-wbxml2" "--without-iodbc"
+    "--enable-openssl=${openssl.dev}"
+  ];
 
   postInstall = ''
     echo Moving documentation
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/sql/virtuoso/7.x.nix b/pkgs/servers/sql/virtuoso/7.x.nix
index bf2a51f6596..536e96354d9 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/sql/virtuoso/7.x.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/sql/virtuoso/7.x.nix
@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   CPP = "${stdenv.cc}/bin/gcc -E";
 
-  configureFlags = "
-    --enable-shared --disable-all-vads --with-readline=${readline.dev}
-    --disable-hslookup --disable-wbxml2 --without-iodbc
-    --enable-openssl=${openssl.dev}
-    ";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--enable-shared" "--disable-all-vads" "--with-readline=${readline.dev}"
+    "--disable-hslookup" "--disable-wbxml2" "--without-iodbc"
+    "--enable-openssl=${openssl.dev}"
+  ];
 
   postInstall=''
     echo Moving documentation
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/default.nix
index cc28dc73ca8..6f94929ffd6 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/default.nix
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "0m60f5bd0caambrk8ksknb5dks7wzsg7g7xaf0j21jxmx8rq9h5j";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ;};
 
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "02advcv9lyxpvrjv8bjh1b797lzg6jvhipclz49z8r8y98g4l0n6";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ;};
 
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "19dd9znam1ah72jmdh7i6ny2ss2r6m21z9v0l43xvikw48zmwvyi";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ;};
 
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "152wigpph5wvl4k9m3l4mchxxisgsnzlx033mn5iqrpkc6f72cl7";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ;};
 
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "0xw0pdnzj5jljsbbhakc6q9ha2qnca1jr81zk7w70yl9bw83b54p";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit mkfontdir mkfontscale ;};
 
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "1x246dfnxnmflzf0qzy62k8jdpkb6jkgspcjgbk8jcq9lw99npah";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit bdftopcf mkfontdir ;};
 
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "10cl4gm38dw68jzln99ijix730y7cbx8np096gmpjjwff1i73h13";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ;};
 
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "073jmhf0sr2j1l8da97pzsqj805f7mf9r2gy92j4diljmi8sm1il";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ;};
 
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "1fqzckxdzjv4802iad2fdrkpaxl4w0hhs9lxlkyraq2kq9ik7a32";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ;};
 
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "0cfbxdp5m12cm7jsh3my0lym9328cgm7fa9faz2hqj05wbxnmhaa";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ;};
 
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "0pyjmc0ha288d4i4j0si4dh3ncf3jiwwjljvddrb0k8v4xiyljqv";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit mkfontdir mkfontscale ;};
 
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "1hb3iav089albp4sdgnlh50k47cdjif9p4axm0kkjvs8jyi5a53n";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit mkfontdir mkfontscale ;};
 
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "1kmn9jbck3vghz6rj3bhc3h0w6gh0qiaqm90cjkqsz1x9r2dgq7b";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit bdftopcf mkfontdir ;};
 
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "13plbifkvfvdfym6gjbgy9wx2xbdxi9hfrl1k22xayy02135wgxs";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit bdftopcf mkfontdir ;};
 
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "1256z0jhcf5gbh1d03593qdwnag708rxqa032izmfb5dmmlhbsn6";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit mkfontdir mkfontscale ;};
 
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "0ai1v4n61k8j9x2a1knvfbl2xjxk3xxmqaq3p9vpqrspc69k31kf";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit bdftopcf mkfontdir ;};
 
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "0dd6vfiagjc4zmvlskrbjz85jfqhf060cpys8j0y1qpcbsrkwdhp";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit bdftopcf mkfontdir ;};
 
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "1s2bbhizzgbbbn5wqs3vw53n619cclxksljvm759h9p1prqdwrdw";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit bdftopcf mkfontdir ;};
 
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "0yzza0l4zwyy7accr1s8ab7fjqkpwggqydbm2vc19scdby5xz7g1";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit bdftopcf mkfontdir ;};
 
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "1pyjll4adch3z5cg663s6vhi02k8m6488f0mrasg81ssvg9jinzx";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit mkfontdir mkfontscale ;};
 
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "0rx8q02rkx673a7skkpnvfkg28i8gmqzgf25s9yi0lar915sn92q";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit bdftopcf mkfontdir ;};
 
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "0rdc3xdz12pnv951538q6wilx8mrdndpkphpbblszsv7nc8cw61b";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit bdftopcf mkfontdir ;};
 
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "1dldxlh54zq1yzfnrh83j5vm0k4ijprrs5yl18gm3n9j1z0q2cws";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit bdftopcf mkfontdir ;};
 
@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "0q2ybxs8wvylvw95j6x9i800rismsmx4b587alwbfqiw6biy63z4";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit bdftopcf mkfontdir ;};
 
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "19cq7iq0pfad0nc2v28n681fdq3fcw1l1hzaq0wpkgpx7bc1zjsk";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit mkfontdir mkfontscale ;};
 
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "148793fqwzrc3bmh2vlw5fdiwjc2n7vs25cic35gfp452czk489p";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit mkfontdir mkfontscale ;};
 
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "150pq6n8n984fah34n3k133kggn9v0c5k07igv29sxp1wi07krxq";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ;};
 
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "13qghgr1zzpv64m0p42195k1kc77pksiv059fdvijz1n6kdplpxx";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit bdftopcf mkfontdir ;};
 
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "0nkym3n48b4v36y4s927bbkjnsmicajarnf6vlp7wxp0as304i74";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit bdftopcf fontutil mkfontdir mkfontscale ;};
 
@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "0yayf1qlv7irf58nngddz2f1q04qkpr5jwp4aja2j5gyvzl32hl2";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit bdftopcf mkfontdir ;};
 
@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "1xfgcx4gsgik5mkgkca31fj3w72jw9iw76qyrajrsz1lp8ka6hr0";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit bdftopcf mkfontdir ;};
 
@@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "1q6jcqrffg9q5f5raivzwx9ffvf7r11g6g0b125na1bhpz5ly7s8";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit bdftopcf mkfontdir ;};
 
@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "181n1bgq8vxfxqicmy1jpm1hnr6gwn1kdhl6hr4frjigs1ikpldb";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ bdftopcf mkfontdir ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit bdftopcf mkfontdir ;};
 
@@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ let
       sha256 = "0jp3zc0qfdaqfkgzrb44vi9vi0a8ygb35wp082yz7rvvxhmg9sya";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = [ mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts";
+    buildInputs = [ mkfontdir mkfontscale ]; configureFlags = [ "--with-fontrootdir=$(out)/lib/X11/fonts" ];
     meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   }) // {inherit mkfontdir mkfontscale ;};
 
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/generate-expr-from-tarballs.pl b/pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/generate-expr-from-tarballs.pl
index dfde730fbea..37daa0dc9bc 100755
--- a/pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/generate-expr-from-tarballs.pl
+++ b/pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/generate-expr-from-tarballs.pl
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ while (<>) {
     }
 
     if ($isFont) {
-        $extraAttrs{$pkg} = " configureFlags = \"--with-fontrootdir=\$(out)/lib/X11/fonts\"; ";
+        $extraAttrs{$pkg} = " configureFlags = [ \"--with-fontrootdir=\$(out)/lib/X11/fonts\" ]; ";
     }
 
     sub process {
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/overrides.nix b/pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/overrides.nix
index 2438c49d9cb..0023c2c070a 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/overrides.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/overrides.nix
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ in
 
   libxcb = attrs : attrs // {
     nativeBuildInputs = attrs.nativeBuildInputs ++ [ args.python ];
-    configureFlags = "--enable-xkb --enable-xinput";
+    configureFlags = [ "--enable-xkb" "--enable-xinput" ];
     outputs = [ "out" "dev" "man" "doc" ];
   };
 
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ in
   # See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47792
   # Once the bug is fixed upstream, this can be removed.
   luit = attrs: attrs // {
-    configureFlags = "--disable-selective-werror";
+    configureFlags = [ "--disable-selective-werror" ];
   };
 
   compositeproto = attrs: attrs // {
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ in
   };
 
   xkbcomp = attrs: attrs // {
-    configureFlags = "--with-xkb-config-root=${xorg.xkeyboardconfig}/share/X11/xkb";
+    configureFlags = [ "--with-xkb-config-root=${xorg.xkeyboardconfig}/share/X11/xkb" ];
   };
 
   xkeyboardconfig = attrs: attrs // {
@@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ in
 
   xcursorthemes = attrs: attrs // {
     buildInputs = attrs.buildInputs ++ [xorg.xcursorgen];
-    configureFlags = "--with-cursordir=$(out)/share/icons";
+    configureFlags = [ "--with-cursordir=$(out)/share/icons" ];
   };
 
   xinit = attrs: attrs // {
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ in
     };
     buildInputs = attrs.buildInputs ++ [xorg.libXfixes xorg.libXScrnSaver xorg.pixman];
     nativeBuildInputs = attrs.nativeBuildInputs ++ [args.autoreconfHook xorg.utilmacros];
-    configureFlags = "--with-default-dri=3 --enable-tools";
+    configureFlags = [ "--with-default-dri=3" "--enable-tools" ];
 
     meta = attrs.meta // {
       platforms = ["i686-linux" "x86_64-linux"];
@@ -672,7 +672,7 @@ in
   };
 
   xrdb = attrs: attrs // {
-    configureFlags = "--with-cpp=${args.mcpp}/bin/mcpp";
+    configureFlags = [ "--with-cpp=${args.mcpp}/bin/mcpp" ];
   };
 
   sessreg = attrs: attrs // {
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/backup/partimage/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/backup/partimage/default.nix
index 8781c2d2cad..a2e962d7f85 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/backup/partimage/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/backup/partimage/default.nix
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     url = mirror://sourceforge/partimage/partimage-0.6.9.tar.bz2;
     sha256 = "0db6xiphk6xnlpbxraiy31c5xzj0ql6k4rfkmqzh665yyj0nqfkm";
   };
-  configureFlags = "--with-ssl-headers=${openssl.dev}/include/openssl";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-ssl-headers=${openssl.dev}/include/openssl" ];
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [bzip2 zlib newt newt openssl slang
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/davfs2/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/davfs2/default.nix
index 64934ccb469..38933c524cc 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/davfs2/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/davfs2/default.nix
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   patches = [ ./isdir.patch ./fix-sysconfdir.patch ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--sysconfdir=/etc";
+  configureFlags = [ "--sysconfdir=/etc" ];
 
   makeFlags = ["sbindir=$(out)/sbin" "ssbindir=$(out)/sbin"];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/graphics/editres/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/graphics/editres/default.nix
index 8bc33fb1b0a..b8f32c33a53 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/graphics/editres/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/graphics/editres/default.nix
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ libXt libXaw libXres utilmacros ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-appdefaultdir=$(out)/share/X11/app-defaults/editres";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-appdefaultdir=$(out)/share/X11/app-defaults/editres" ];
 
   hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/graphics/ggobi/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/graphics/ggobi/default.nix
index 071c8f36079..0ed1855a338 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/graphics/ggobi/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/graphics/ggobi/default.nix
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ libxml2 gtk2 ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-all-plugins";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-all-plugins" ];
 
   hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/graphics/plotutils/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/graphics/plotutils/default.nix
index 780e09ee91c..0d1890bb670 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/graphics/plotutils/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/graphics/plotutils/default.nix
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     make -C libplot xmi.h
   '';
 
-  configureFlags = "--enable-libplotter"; # required for pstoedit
+  configureFlags = [ "--enable-libplotter" ]; # required for pstoedit
 
   hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/inputmethods/keyfuzz/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/inputmethods/keyfuzz/default.nix
index b930da02acc..bb179e18e07 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/inputmethods/keyfuzz/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/inputmethods/keyfuzz/default.nix
@@ -17,5 +17,5 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "0xv9ymivp8fnyc5xcyh1vamxnx90bzw66wlld813fvm6q2gsiknk";
   };
 
-  configureFlags = "--without-initdir --disable-lynx";
+  configureFlags = [ "--without-initdir" "--disable-lynx" ];
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/most/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/most/default.nix
index 61ddec3caaa..3471016db5b 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/most/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/most/default.nix
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
       -e "s|/bin/rm|rm|"
   '';
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-slang=${slang.dev}";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-slang=${slang.dev}" ];
 
   buildInputs = [ slang ncurses ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/argus-clients/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/argus-clients/default.nix
index 766ae411606..dccab1796fb 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/argus-clients/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/argus-clients/default.nix
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     done
     '';
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-perl=${perl}/bin/perl";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-perl=${perl}/bin/perl" ];
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ libpcap bison cyrus_sasl tcp_wrappers flex ];
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/cadaver/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/cadaver/default.nix
index 6bc96a5b8c7..75a05108b8b 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/cadaver/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/cadaver/default.nix
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     })
   ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-ssl";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-ssl" ];
 
   buildInputs = [ openssl ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/infiniband-diags/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/infiniband-diags/default.nix
index f769a3fcffa..2ed5346b551 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/infiniband-diags/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/infiniband-diags/default.nix
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     ./autogen.sh
   '';
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-perl-installdir=\${out}/lib/perl5/site_perl --sbindir=\${out}/bin";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-perl-installdir=\${out}/lib/perl5/site_perl" "--sbindir=\${out}/bin" ];
 
   postInstall = ''
     rmdir $out/var/run $out/var
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/reaver-wps/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/reaver-wps/default.nix
index 6cbee7d2a85..ed48feabb85 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/reaver-wps/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/reaver-wps/default.nix
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sourceRoot=$(echo */src)
   '';
 
-  configureFlags = "--sysconfdir=${confdir}";
+  configureFlags = [ "--sysconfdir=${confdir}" ];
 
   installPhase = ''
     mkdir -p $out/{bin,etc}
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/ssmtp/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/ssmtp/default.nix
index 031f32b5362..6a8306cc4b8 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/ssmtp/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/ssmtp/default.nix
@@ -14,7 +14,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   # See: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=858781
   patches = [ ./ssmtp_support_AuthPassFile_parameter.patch ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--sysconfdir=/etc ${if tlsSupport then "--enable-ssl" else ""}";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--sysconfdir=/etc"
+    (stdenv.lib.enableFeature tlsSupport "ssl")
+  ];
 
   postConfigure =
     ''
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/trickle/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/trickle/default.nix
index f6c88bb66b7..7a4adc14c2d 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/trickle/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/trickle/default.nix
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   LDFLAGS = "-levent";
 
-  configureFlags = "--with-libevent";
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-libevent" ];
 
   hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/webalizer/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/webalizer/default.nix
index 5d31d35bd63..67a95f32b61 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/webalizer/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/webalizer/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, zlib, libpng, gd, geoip, db}:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, zlib, libpng, gd, geoip, db }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "webalizer-2.23-05";
@@ -16,7 +16,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   buildInputs = [zlib libpng gd geoip db]; 
 
-  configureFlags = "--enable-dns --enable-geoip --disable-static --enable-shared";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--enable-dns"
+    "--enable-geoip"
+    "--disable-static"
+    "--enable-shared"
+  ];
 
   meta = {
     platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/security/super/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/security/super/default.nix
index 688521e1401..2b4173a51af 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/security/super/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/security/super/default.nix
@@ -24,7 +24,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-D_GNU_SOURCE";
 
-  configureFlags = "--sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--sysconfdir=/etc"
+    "--localstatedir=/var"
+  ];
 
   installFlags = "sysconfdir=$(out)/etc localstatedir=$(TMPDIR)";
 
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/security/yara/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/security/yara/default.nix
index 166f20dd7d6..e273b2c1909 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/security/yara/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/security/yara/default.nix
@@ -41,11 +41,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   preConfigure = "./bootstrap.sh";
 
-  configureFlags = ""
-    + stdenv.lib.optionalString withCrypto "--with-crypto "
-    + stdenv.lib.optionalString enableMagic "--enable-magic "
-    + stdenv.lib.optionalString enableCuckoo "--enable-cuckoo "
-  ;
+  configureFlags = [
+    (stdenv.lib.withFeature withCrypto "crypto")
+    (stdenv.lib.enableFeature enableMagic "magic")
+    (stdenv.lib.enableFeature enableCuckoo "cuckoo")
+  ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "The pattern matching swiss knife for malware researchers";
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/catdoc/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/catdoc/default.nix
index 2a06b25b11d..8a8eb3117f0 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/text/catdoc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/text/catdoc/default.nix
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     })
   ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-wordview";
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-wordview" ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "MS-Word/Excel/PowerPoint to text converter";
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/xmlroff/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/xmlroff/default.nix
index 2177937221a..e6966834feb 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/xmlroff/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/xmlroff/default.nix
@@ -26,7 +26,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   configureScript = "./autogen.sh";
 
-  configureFlags = "--disable-pangoxsl --disable-gp";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--disable-pangoxsl"
+    "--disable-gp"
+  ];
 
   hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/php-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/php-packages.nix
index 0057353c3e0..8d4f99d5ce1 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/php-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/php-packages.nix
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ let
   imagick = buildPecl {
     name = "imagick-3.4.3";
     sha256 = "0z2nc92xfc5axa9f2dy95rmsd2c81q8cs1pm4anh0a50x9g5ng0z";
-    configureFlags = "--with-imagick=${pkgs.imagemagick.dev}";
+    configureFlags = [ "--with-imagick=${pkgs.imagemagick.dev}" ];
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.pkgconfig ];
     buildInputs = [ pkgs.pcre ];
   };
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ let
 
     sha256 = "04c35rj0cvq5ygn2jgmyvqcb0k8d03v4k642b6i37zgv7x15pbic";
 
-    configureFlags = "--with-zlib-dir=${pkgs.zlib.dev}";
+    configureFlags = [ "--with-zlib-dir=${pkgs.zlib.dev}" ];
 
     makeFlags = [ "CFLAGS=-fgnu89-inline" ];
   };