diff --git a/core/config.mk b/core/config.mk
index 583909d57..86915a6ba 100644
--- a/core/config.mk
+++ b/core/config.mk
@@ -847,7 +847,7 @@ endef
 
 # These goals don't need to collect and include Android.mks/CleanSpec.mks
 # in the source tree.
-dont_bother_goals := clean clobber dataclean installclean \
+dont_bother_goals := dataclean installclean \
     help out \
     snod systemimage-nodeps \
     stnod systemtarball-nodeps \
diff --git a/core/main.mk b/core/main.mk
index 6089cec39..5bc8b3bb9 100644
--- a/core/main.mk
+++ b/core/main.mk
@@ -1270,14 +1270,6 @@ endif  # samplecode in $(MAKECMDGOALS)
 .PHONY: findbugs
 findbugs: $(INTERNAL_FINDBUGS_HTML_TARGET) $(INTERNAL_FINDBUGS_XML_TARGET)
 
-.PHONY: clean
-clean:
-	@rm -rf $(OUT_DIR)/*
-	@echo "Entire build directory removed."
-
-.PHONY: clobber
-clobber: clean
-
 # The rules for dataclean and installclean are defined in cleanbuild.mk.
 
 #xxx scrape this from ALL_MODULE_NAME_TAGS