diff --git a/Makefile.lib b/Makefile.lib
index 00ce57b8..bd825b5b 100644
--- a/Makefile.lib
+++ b/Makefile.lib
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ init-default:
 		echo 'include $(SRC)/$(RELPATH)/$(subdir)/Makefile' > $(subdir)/Makefile;)
 
 clean-default:
-	-test -z "$(CLEAN)" || $(RM) $(CLEAN)
+	@-test -z "$(CLEAN)" || $(RM) $(CLEAN)
 
 cleanall-default: clean-default
 
diff --git a/doc/Makefile b/doc/Makefile
index fc440d6b..08641d12 100644
--- a/doc/Makefile
+++ b/doc/Makefile
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ doc-dirs:
 
 # $(MAN_DIR) intentionally left out
 clean-local:
-	$(RM) -r $(HTML_DIR) $(XML_DIR) $(TXT_DIR) $(PDF_DIR) *.tmp
+	@$(RM) -r $(HTML_DIR) $(XML_DIR) $(TXT_DIR) $(PDF_DIR) *.tmp
 
 
 # Autogenerated asciidoc files.
diff --git a/po/Makefile b/po/Makefile
index be417749..b1b3cd5b 100644
--- a/po/Makefile
+++ b/po/Makefile
@@ -102,6 +102,6 @@ install-local: all-local
 	)
 
 clean-local:
-	rm -f $(PACKAGE).po *.new.po $(srcdir)/$(POTFILES_ABS_LIST)
+	@rm -f $(PACKAGE).po *.new.po $(srcdir)/$(POTFILES_ABS_LIST)
 
 include $(top_srcdir)/Makefile.lib