diff --git a/tools/build/depend-cleanup.sh b/tools/build/depend-cleanup.sh
index 4dfe694d5c0..e327ee40a6d 100755
--- a/tools/build/depend-cleanup.sh
+++ b/tools/build/depend-cleanup.sh
@@ -218,3 +218,13 @@ clean_dep   lib/libc        fstatfs       c
 clean_dep   lib/libc        getdirentries c
 clean_dep   lib/libc        getfsstat     c
 clean_dep   lib/libc        statfs        c
+
+# 20240308  e6ffc7669a56    Remove pointless MD syscall(2)
+# 20240308  0ee0ae237324    Remove pointless MD syscall(2)
+# 20240308  7b3836c28188    Remove pointless MD syscall(2)
+if [ ${MACHINE} != i386 -a -f "$OBJTOP"/lib/libsys/.depend.syscall.o && \
+    grep -eq 'libsys/[^ /]*/syscall.S' "$OBJTOP"/lib/libsys/.depend.syscall.*; then
+	echo "Removing stale <arch>/syscall.S depends"
+	clean_dep   lib/libsys  syscall S
+	clean_dep   lib/libc    syscall S
+fi