diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/Makefile b/doc/src/sgml/Makefile
index c663fbe3aa..24870b518d 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/Makefile
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/Makefile
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #
 #
 # IDENTIFICATION
-#    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/Makefile,v 1.43 2001/11/08 23:46:29 petere Exp $
+#    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/Makefile,v 1.44 2001/11/16 16:29:56 petere Exp $
 #
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ $(addsuffix .tex-pdf, $(ALLBOOKS)): %.tex-pdf: %.sgml $(ALLSGML) stylesheet.dsl
 programmer.tex-pdf: catalogs.pdf connections.pdf
 
 %.dvi: %.tex-ps
-	@rm $*.aux $*.log
+	@rm -f $*.aux $*.log
 	jadetex $<
 	jadetex $<
 	jadetex $<
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ programmer.tex-pdf: catalogs.pdf connections.pdf
 	dvips -o $@ $<
 
 %.pdf: %.tex-pdf
-	@rm $*.aux $*.log $*.out
+	@rm -f $*.aux $*.log $*.out
 	pdfjadetex $<
 	pdfjadetex $<
 	pdfjadetex $<