diff --git a/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/Makefile b/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/Makefile
index 1d46a247ec959ee7b55e7e3c96cda57966a85460..be09ec4f03fffdbc008933125001718d9cf5f817 100644
--- a/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/Makefile
+++ b/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/Makefile
@@ -64,13 +64,20 @@ $(BINARY): $(BPFOBJ) $(SUBCMDOBJ) $(BINARY_IN)
 	$(call msg,LINK,$@)
 	$(Q)$(CC) $(BINARY_IN) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $(BPFOBJ) $(SUBCMDOBJ) $(LIBS)
 
+clean_objects := $(wildcard $(OUTPUT)/*.o                \
+                            $(OUTPUT)/.*.o.cmd           \
+                            $(OUTPUT)/.*.o.d             \
+                            $(OUTPUT)/libbpf             \
+                            $(OUTPUT)/libsubcmd          \
+                            $(OUTPUT)/resolve_btfids)
+
+ifneq ($(clean_objects),)
 clean: fixdep-clean
 	$(call msg,CLEAN,$(BINARY))
-	$(Q)$(RM) -f $(BINARY); \
-	$(RM) -rf $(if $(OUTPUT),$(OUTPUT),.)/feature; \
-	$(RM) -rf $(OUTPUT)/libbpf; \
-	$(RM) -rf $(OUTPUT)/libsubcmd; \
-	find $(if $(OUTPUT),$(OUTPUT),.) -name \*.o -or -name \*.o.cmd -or -name \*.o.d | xargs $(RM)
+	$(Q)$(RM) -rf $(clean_objects)
+else
+clean:
+endif
 
 tags:
 	$(call msg,GEN,,tags)