diff --git a/core/Makefile b/core/Makefile
index a7ab442..c2d7308 100644
--- a/core/Makefile
+++ b/core/Makefile
@@ -970,27 +970,12 @@
 
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------
 
-.PHONY: event-log-tags
-
-# Produce an event logs tag file for everything we know about, in order
-# to properly allocate numbers.  Then produce a file that's filtered
-# for what's going to be installed.
-
-all_event_log_tags_file := $(TARGET_OUT_COMMON_INTERMEDIATES)/all-event-log-tags.txt
-
 event_log_tags_file := $(TARGET_OUT)/etc/event-log-tags
 
 # Include tags from all packages that we know about
 all_event_log_tags_src := \
     $(sort $(foreach m, $(ALL_MODULES), $(ALL_MODULES.$(m).EVENT_LOG_TAGS)))
 
-$(all_event_log_tags_file): PRIVATE_SRC_FILES := $(all_event_log_tags_src)
-$(all_event_log_tags_file): $(all_event_log_tags_src) $(MERGETAGS) build/make/tools/event_log_tags.py
-	$(hide) mkdir -p $(dir $@)
-	$(hide) $(MERGETAGS) -o $@ $(PRIVATE_SRC_FILES)
-
-$(call declare-0p-target,$(all_event_log_tags_file))
-
 # Include tags from all packages included in this product, plus all
 # tags that are part of the system (ie, not in a vendor/ or device/
 # directory).
@@ -1002,13 +987,13 @@
       $(filter-out vendor/% device/% out/%,$(all_event_log_tags_src)))
 
 $(event_log_tags_file): PRIVATE_SRC_FILES := $(event_log_tags_src)
-$(event_log_tags_file): PRIVATE_MERGED_FILE := $(all_event_log_tags_file)
-$(event_log_tags_file): $(event_log_tags_src) $(all_event_log_tags_file) $(MERGETAGS) build/make/tools/event_log_tags.py
+$(event_log_tags_file): $(event_log_tags_src) $(MERGETAGS)
 	$(hide) mkdir -p $(dir $@)
-	$(hide) $(MERGETAGS) -o $@ -m $(PRIVATE_MERGED_FILE) $(PRIVATE_SRC_FILES)
+	$(hide) $(MERGETAGS) -o $@ $(PRIVATE_SRC_FILES)
 
 $(eval $(call declare-0p-target,$(event_log_tags_file)))
 
+.PHONY: event-log-tags
 event-log-tags: $(event_log_tags_file)
 
 ALL_DEFAULT_INSTALLED_MODULES += $(event_log_tags_file)
diff --git a/core/config.mk b/core/config.mk
index d62b86d..f30298d 100644
--- a/core/config.mk
+++ b/core/config.mk
@@ -731,7 +731,7 @@
 PROGUARD := $(PROGUARD_HOME)/bin/proguard.sh
 PROGUARD_DEPS := $(PROGUARD) $(PROGUARD_HOME)/lib/proguard.jar
 JAVATAGS := build/make/tools/java-event-log-tags.py
-MERGETAGS := build/make/tools/merge-event-log-tags.py
+MERGETAGS := $(HOST_OUT_EXECUTABLES)/merge-event-log-tags
 APPEND2SIMG := $(HOST_OUT_EXECUTABLES)/append2simg
 VERITY_SIGNER := $(HOST_OUT_EXECUTABLES)/verity_signer
 BUILD_VERITY_METADATA := $(HOST_OUT_EXECUTABLES)/build_verity_metadata
diff --git a/core/definitions.mk b/core/definitions.mk
index adb35e0..1ab6388 100644
--- a/core/definitions.mk
+++ b/core/definitions.mk
@@ -1555,7 +1555,7 @@
 define transform-logtags-to-java
 @mkdir -p $(dir $@)
 @echo "logtags: $@ <= $<"
-$(hide) $(JAVATAGS) -o $@ $< $(PRIVATE_MERGED_TAG)
+$(hide) $(JAVATAGS) -o $@ $<
 endef
 
 
diff --git a/core/java.mk b/core/java.mk
index 5fbc916..35026db 100644
--- a/core/java.mk
+++ b/core/java.mk
@@ -140,7 +140,6 @@
 logtags_java_sources := $(patsubst %.logtags,%.java,$(addprefix $(intermediates.COMMON)/logtags/, $(logtags_sources)))
 logtags_sources := $(addprefix $(LOCAL_PATH)/, $(logtags_sources))
 
-$(logtags_java_sources): PRIVATE_MERGED_TAG := $(TARGET_OUT_COMMON_INTERMEDIATES)/all-event-log-tags.txt
 $(logtags_java_sources): $(intermediates.COMMON)/logtags/%.java: $(LOCAL_PATH)/%.logtags $(TARGET_OUT_COMMON_INTERMEDIATES)/all-event-log-tags.txt $(JAVATAGS) build/make/tools/event_log_tags.py
 	$(transform-logtags-to-java)