diff --git a/core/recipes-core/meta/buildtools-tarball.bbappend b/core/recipes-core/meta/buildtools-tarball.bbappend
index be543d3..5c1815a 100644
--- a/core/recipes-core/meta/buildtools-tarball.bbappend
+++ b/core/recipes-core/meta/buildtools-tarball.bbappend
@@ -2,5 +2,6 @@
 # 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', '')
+    if d.getVar('EXTERNAL_ENABLED'):
+        d.setVar('TOOLCHAIN_TARGET_TASK', '')
 }