diff --git a/android/gyp/util/build_utils.py b/android/gyp/util/build_utils.py
index 65bd07b35..8b395131c 100644
--- a/android/gyp/util/build_utils.py
+++ b/android/gyp/util/build_utils.py
@@ -406,8 +406,7 @@ def GetPythonDependencies():
   A path is assumed to be a "system" import if it is outside of chromium's
   src/. The paths will be relative to the current directory.
   """
-  module_paths = (m.__file__ for m in sys.modules.itervalues()
-                  if m is not None and hasattr(m, '__file__'))
+  module_paths = GetModulePaths()
 
   abs_module_paths = map(os.path.abspath, module_paths)
 
@@ -424,6 +423,30 @@ def GetPythonDependencies():
   return sorted(set(non_system_module_paths))
 
 
+def GetModulePaths():
+  """Returns the paths to all of the modules in sys.modules."""
+  ForceLazyModulesToLoad()
+  return (m.__file__ for m in sys.modules.itervalues()
+          if m is not None and hasattr(m, '__file__'))
+
+
+def ForceLazyModulesToLoad():
+  """Forces any lazily imported modules to fully load themselves.
+
+  Inspecting the modules' __file__ attribute causes lazily imported modules
+  (e.g. from email) to get fully imported and update sys.modules. Iterate
+  over the values until sys.modules stabilizes so that no modules are missed.
+  """
+  while True:
+    num_modules_before = len(sys.modules.keys())
+    for m in sys.modules.values():
+      if m is not None and hasattr(m, '__file__'):
+        _ = m.__file__
+    num_modules_after = len(sys.modules.keys())
+    if num_modules_before == num_modules_after:
+      break
+
+
 def AddDepfileOption(parser):
   # TODO(agrieve): Get rid of this once we've moved to argparse.
   if hasattr(parser, 'add_option'):