diff --git a/core/recipes-core/meta/buildtools-tarball.bbappend b/core/recipes-core/meta/buildtools-tarball.bbappend
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+# buildtools-tarball is host only, and does not add TOOLCHAIN_TARGET_TASK to
+# RDEPENDS. Forcibly empty it, otherwise a TOOLCHAIN_TARGET_TASK_append at the
+# config level will break the buildtools-tarball build
+python () {
+    d.setVar('TOOLCHAIN_TARGET_TASK', '')
+}