diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index b0e4767735dc..159d9592b587 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1086,6 +1086,11 @@ ifdef CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION
   endif
 endif
 
+PHONY += resolve_btfids_clean
+
+resolve_btfids_clean:
+	$(Q)$(MAKE) -sC $(srctree)/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids O=$(abspath $(objtree))/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids clean
+
 ifdef CONFIG_BPF
 ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF
   ifeq ($(has_libelf),1)
@@ -1495,7 +1500,7 @@ vmlinuxclean:
 	$(Q)$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh clean
 	$(Q)$(if $(ARCH_POSTLINK), $(MAKE) -f $(ARCH_POSTLINK) clean)
 
-clean: archclean vmlinuxclean
+clean: archclean vmlinuxclean resolve_btfids_clean
 
 # mrproper - Delete all generated files, including .config
 #
diff --git a/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/.gitignore b/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/.gitignore
index a026df7dc280..25f308c933cc 100644
--- a/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/.gitignore
+++ b/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
-/FEATURE-DUMP.libbpf
-/bpf_helper_defs.h
 /fixdep
 /resolve_btfids
diff --git a/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/Makefile b/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/Makefile
index bf656432ad73..bb9fa8de7e62 100644
--- a/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/Makefile
+++ b/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/Makefile
@@ -2,11 +2,7 @@
 include ../../scripts/Makefile.include
 include ../../scripts/Makefile.arch
 
-ifeq ($(srctree),)
-srctree := $(patsubst %/,%,$(dir $(CURDIR)))
-srctree := $(patsubst %/,%,$(dir $(srctree)))
-srctree := $(patsubst %/,%,$(dir $(srctree)))
-endif
+srctree := $(abspath $(CURDIR)/../../../)
 
 ifeq ($(V),1)
   Q =
@@ -22,28 +18,29 @@ AR       = $(HOSTAR)
 CC       = $(HOSTCC)
 LD       = $(HOSTLD)
 ARCH     = $(HOSTARCH)
+RM      ?= rm
 
 OUTPUT ?= $(srctree)/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/
 
 LIBBPF_SRC := $(srctree)/tools/lib/bpf/
 SUBCMD_SRC := $(srctree)/tools/lib/subcmd/
 
-BPFOBJ     := $(OUTPUT)/libbpf.a
-SUBCMDOBJ  := $(OUTPUT)/libsubcmd.a
+BPFOBJ     := $(OUTPUT)/libbpf/libbpf.a
+SUBCMDOBJ  := $(OUTPUT)/libsubcmd/libsubcmd.a
 
 BINARY     := $(OUTPUT)/resolve_btfids
 BINARY_IN  := $(BINARY)-in.o
 
 all: $(BINARY)
 
-$(OUTPUT):
+$(OUTPUT) $(OUTPUT)/libbpf $(OUTPUT)/libsubcmd:
 	$(call msg,MKDIR,,$@)
-	$(Q)mkdir -p $(OUTPUT)
+	$(Q)mkdir -p $(@)
 
-$(SUBCMDOBJ): fixdep FORCE
-	$(Q)$(MAKE) -C $(SUBCMD_SRC) OUTPUT=$(OUTPUT)
+$(SUBCMDOBJ): fixdep FORCE | $(OUTPUT)/libsubcmd
+	$(Q)$(MAKE) -C $(SUBCMD_SRC) OUTPUT=$(abspath $(dir $@))/ $(abspath $@)
 
-$(BPFOBJ): $(wildcard $(LIBBPF_SRC)/*.[ch] $(LIBBPF_SRC)/Makefile) | $(OUTPUT)
+$(BPFOBJ): $(wildcard $(LIBBPF_SRC)/*.[ch] $(LIBBPF_SRC)/Makefile) | $(OUTPUT)/libbpf
 	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(submake_extras) -C $(LIBBPF_SRC)  OUTPUT=$(abspath $(dir $@))/ $(abspath $@)
 
 CFLAGS := -g \
@@ -57,24 +54,27 @@ LIBS = -lelf -lz
 export srctree OUTPUT CFLAGS Q
 include $(srctree)/tools/build/Makefile.include
 
-$(BINARY_IN): fixdep FORCE
+$(BINARY_IN): fixdep FORCE | $(OUTPUT)
 	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=resolve_btfids
 
 $(BINARY): $(BPFOBJ) $(SUBCMDOBJ) $(BINARY_IN)
 	$(call msg,LINK,$@)
 	$(Q)$(CC) $(BINARY_IN) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $(BPFOBJ) $(SUBCMDOBJ) $(LIBS)
 
-libsubcmd-clean:
-	$(Q)$(MAKE) -C $(SUBCMD_SRC) OUTPUT=$(OUTPUT) clean
+clean_objects := $(wildcard $(OUTPUT)/*.o                \
+                            $(OUTPUT)/.*.o.cmd           \
+                            $(OUTPUT)/.*.o.d             \
+                            $(OUTPUT)/libbpf             \
+                            $(OUTPUT)/libsubcmd          \
+                            $(OUTPUT)/resolve_btfids)
 
-libbpf-clean:
-	$(Q)$(MAKE) -C $(LIBBPF_SRC) OUTPUT=$(OUTPUT) clean
-
-clean: libsubcmd-clean libbpf-clean fixdep-clean
+ifneq ($(clean_objects),)
+clean: fixdep-clean
 	$(call msg,CLEAN,$(BINARY))
-	$(Q)$(RM) -f $(BINARY); \
-	$(RM) -rf $(if $(OUTPUT),$(OUTPUT),.)/feature; \
-	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)