diff --git a/projects/Stacker/lib/Makefile b/projects/Stacker/lib/Makefile
index bee436b83fb..3a9a470a108 100644
--- a/projects/Stacker/lib/Makefile
+++ b/projects/Stacker/lib/Makefile
@@ -7,9 +7,10 @@
 LEVEL = ..
 DIRS = compiler runtime
 
+include $(LEVEL)/Makefile.common
+
 # Don't generate the runtime if we don't have LLVMGCC
-ifeq ($(LLVMGCC),)
+ifeq ($(strip $(LLVMGCC)),)
   DIRS := $(filter-out runtime, $(DIRS))
 endif
 
-include $(LEVEL)/Makefile.common