diff --git a/build_docs b/build_docs
index 03d488d..16bdb3f 100755
--- a/build_docs
+++ b/build_docs
@@ -1,18 +1,31 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -e
 
+# $scriptname will already be set if build_docs is getting called from build_docs_to_publish.
+# Otherwise, we need to set it to the basename of this script.
+if [[ -z "${scriptname}" ]]; then
+    scriptname="${0##*/}"
+fi
+
 if [ ! -e doc-builder ]; then
     # We're in the doc-builder directory itself
-    script="./tools/build_docs.py"
+    script="./tools/${scriptname}.py"
     files_to_copy_to_source="conf.py substitutions.py _templates _static"
     cp -a ${files_to_copy_to_source} source/
 else
-    # We're in a repo that has doc-builder as a submodule
-    script="./doc-builder/tools/build_docs.py"
+    # We're in a repo that *includes* doc-builder
+    script="./doc-builder/tools/${scriptname}.py"
 
-    # Make sure the submodule is checked out. For now, we assume the repo is using git-fleximod to
-    # manage submodules.
-    "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)"/bin/git-fleximod update doc-builder
+    # Make sure the doc-builder submodule is checked out. If doc-builder isn't a submodule but is
+    # instead manually included, we will perform the `else`, which is safe because it's a no-op in
+    # that situation.
+    # (Assume that if the repo uses git-fleximod, doc-builder is handled with it.)
+    git_fleximod_path="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/bin/git-fleximod"
+    if [[ -e "${git_fleximod_path}" ]]; then
+        "${git_fleximod_path}" update doc-builder
+    else
+        git submodule update --init -- doc-builder
+    fi
 fi
 
 # Check if --verbose or -V was passed
diff --git a/build_docs_to_publish b/build_docs_to_publish
index d5eeaf7..6928d51 100755
--- a/build_docs_to_publish
+++ b/build_docs_to_publish
@@ -1,51 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -e
 
-if [ ! -e doc-builder ]; then
-    # We're in the doc-builder directory itself
-    script="./tools/build_docs_to_publish.py"
-    files_to_copy_to_source="conf.py substitutions.py _templates _static"
-    cp -a ${files_to_copy_to_source} source/
-else
-    # We're in a repo that has doc-builder as a submodule
-    script="./doc-builder/tools/build_docs_to_publish.py"
-
-    # Make sure the submodule is checked out. For now, we assume the repo is using git-fleximod to
-    # manage submodules.
-    "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)"/bin/git-fleximod update doc-builder
-fi
-
-# Check if --verbose or -V was passed
-verbose=false
-for arg in "$@"; do
-    case "$arg" in
-        --verbose|-V) verbose=true; break ;;
-    esac
-done
-
-cd "${script_dir}"
-
-if $verbose; then
-    echo "Running: make fetch-images"
-    make fetch-images
-else
-    make fetch-images > /dev/null 2>&1
-fi
-
-if $verbose; then
-    echo "Running: ${script} $@"
-    pwd
-fi
-set +e
-${script} "$@"
-exit_code=$?
-set -e
-
-if [ ! -e doc-builder ]; then
-    # Clean up these things we copied
-    for f in ${files_to_copy_to_source}; do
-        rm -r "source/$f"
-    done
-fi
-
-exit $exit_code
+. ./build_docs build_docs_to_publish
diff --git a/tools/build_docs_to_publish.py b/tools/build_docs_to_publish.py
index 6a42e05..3163357 100755
--- a/tools/build_docs_to_publish.py
+++ b/tools/build_docs_to_publish.py
@@ -78,7 +78,6 @@ def setup_this_ref(args):
         permanent_files.append("doc-builder")
 
     # Check some things about "permanent" files before checkout
-    print(f"{os.getcwd()=}")
     for filename in permanent_files:
         check_permanent_file(filename)
 
@@ -130,7 +129,7 @@ def checkout_and_build(version, permanent_files, args):
         build_args += ["--container-cli-tool", args.container_cli_tool]
     if args.verbose:
         build_args.append("--verbose")
-    print(" ".join(build_args))
+        print(f"build_logs command-line args: {build_args}")
     build_docs(build_args)