diff --git a/core/clear_vars.mk b/core/clear_vars.mk
index e2b851630..6cf344f29 100644
--- a/core/clear_vars.mk
+++ b/core/clear_vars.mk
@@ -109,7 +109,6 @@ LOCAL_ADDITIONAL_JAVA_DIR:=
 LOCAL_ALLOW_UNDEFINED_SYMBOLS:=
 LOCAL_DX_FLAGS:=
 LOCAL_JACK_ENABLED:=$(DEFAULT_JACK_ENABLED) # '' (ie disabled), disabled, full, incremental
-LOCAL_JACK_EXTRA_ARGS := $(DEFAULT_JACK_EXTRA_ARGS)
 LOCAL_JACK_FLAGS:=
 LOCAL_JILL_FLAGS:=
 LOCAL_CERTIFICATE:=
diff --git a/core/definitions.mk b/core/definitions.mk
index 872f7dbda..a036a2530 100644
--- a/core/definitions.mk
+++ b/core/definitions.mk
@@ -1779,9 +1779,8 @@ endef
 
 # Call jack
 #
-# $(1): jack extra arguments
 define call-jack
- JACK_VERSION=$(PRIVATE_JACK_VERSION) $(JACK) $(1)
+ JACK_VERSION=$(PRIVATE_JACK_VERSION) $(JACK) $(DEFAULT_JACK_EXTRA_ARGS)
 endef
 
 # Common definition to invoke javac on the host and target.
@@ -1884,7 +1883,7 @@ $(hide) if [ -s $(PRIVATE_JACK_INTERMEDIATES_DIR)/java-source-list-uniq ] ; then
 else \
     export tmpEcjArg=""; \
 fi; \
-$(call call-jack,$(PRIVATE_JACK_EXTRA_ARGS)) \
+$(call call-jack) \
     $(strip $(PRIVATE_JACK_FLAGS)) \
     $(if $(NO_OPTIMIZE_DX), \
         -D jack.dex.optimize="false") \
@@ -1919,7 +1918,7 @@ define transform-jar-to-jack
 	$(hide) mkdir -p $@.tmpjill.res
 	$(hide) $(call unzip-jar-files,$<,$@.tmpjill.res)
 	$(hide) find $@.tmpjill.res -iname "*.class" -delete
-	$(hide) $(call call-jack,$(PRIVATE_JACK_EXTRA_ARGS)) \
+	$(hide) $(call call-jack) \
         -D jack.import.resource.policy=keep-first \
         -D jack.import.type.policy=keep-first \
 	    --import $@.tmpjill.jack \
@@ -1963,7 +1962,7 @@ $(hide) if [ -s $(PRIVATE_JACK_INTERMEDIATES_DIR)/java-source-list-uniq ] ; then
 else \
     export tmpEcjArg=""; \
 fi; \
-$(call call-jack,$(PRIVATE_JACK_EXTRA_ARGS)) \
+$(call call-jack) \
     $(strip $(PRIVATE_JACK_FLAGS)) \
     $(if $(NO_OPTIMIZE_DX), \
         -D jack.dex.optimize="false") \
diff --git a/core/java_common.mk b/core/java_common.mk
index e3d2853d2..9d810962d 100644
--- a/core/java_common.mk
+++ b/core/java_common.mk
@@ -259,7 +259,6 @@ full_static_jack_libs := \
         JAVA_LIBRARIES,$(lib),$(LOCAL_IS_HOST_MODULE),COMMON)/classes.jack)
 
 $(LOCAL_INTERMEDIATE_TARGETS): PRIVATE_STATIC_JACK_LIBRARIES := $(full_static_jack_libs)
-$(LOCAL_INTERMEDIATE_TARGETS): PRIVATE_JACK_EXTRA_ARGS := $(LOCAL_JACK_EXTRA_ARGS)
 
 ifndef LOCAL_IS_HOST_MODULE
 ifeq ($(LOCAL_SDK_VERSION),)