diff --git a/cmake/kconfig.cmake b/cmake/kconfig.cmake
index e852eae360b..22a09a73590 100644
--- a/cmake/kconfig.cmake
+++ b/cmake/kconfig.cmake
@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ if(OVERLAY_CONFIG)
   string(REPLACE " " ";" OVERLAY_CONFIG_AS_LIST "${OVERLAY_CONFIG}")
 endif()
 
+# DTS_ROOT_BINDINGS is a semicolon separated list, this causes
+# problems when invoking kconfig_target since semicolon is a special
+# character in the C shell, so we make it into a question-mark
+# separated list instead.
+string(REPLACE ";" "?" DTS_ROOT_BINDINGS "${DTS_ROOT_BINDINGS}")
+
 set(ENV{srctree}            ${ZEPHYR_BASE})
 set(ENV{KERNELVERSION}      ${KERNELVERSION})
 set(ENV{KCONFIG_CONFIG}     ${DOTCONFIG})
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/kconfigfunctions.py b/scripts/kconfig/kconfigfunctions.py
index 7a5cd63445a..14345b637a6 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/kconfigfunctions.py
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/kconfigfunctions.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ if not doc_mode:
 
     # if a board port doesn't use DTS than these might not be set
     if os.path.isfile(DTS_POST_CPP) and BINDINGS_DIRS is not None:
-        edt = edtlib.EDT(DTS_POST_CPP, BINDINGS_DIRS.split(";"))
+        edt = edtlib.EDT(DTS_POST_CPP, BINDINGS_DIRS.split("?"))
     else:
         edt = None