diff --git a/core/main.mk b/core/main.mk
index 255ff54..d424b25 100644
--- a/core/main.mk
+++ b/core/main.mk
@@ -417,8 +417,6 @@
 endif
 
 # Bring in all modules that need to be built.
-ifneq ($(dont_bother),true)
-
 ifeq ($(HOST_OS)-$(HOST_ARCH),darwin-ppc)
 SDK_ONLY := true
 $(info Building the SDK under darwin-ppc is actually obsolete and unsupported.)
@@ -479,6 +477,7 @@
 
 else # ONE_SHOT_MAKEFILE
 
+ifneq ($(dont_bother),true)
 #
 # Include all of the makefiles in the system
 #
@@ -490,6 +489,8 @@
 
 $(foreach mk, $(subdir_makefiles), $(info including $(mk) ...)$(eval include $(mk)))
 
+endif # dont_bother
+
 endif # ONE_SHOT_MAKEFILE
 
 # Now with all Android.mks loaded we can do post cleaning steps.
@@ -672,8 +673,6 @@
       $(warning $(ALL_MODULES.$(m).MAKEFILE): Module '$(m)' in PRODUCT_PACKAGES_TESTS has nothing to install!)))
 endif
 
-endif # dont_bother
-
 # build/core/Makefile contains extra stuff that we don't want to pollute this
 # top-level makefile with.  It expects that ALL_DEFAULT_INSTALLED_MODULES
 # contains everything that's built during the current make, but it also further