diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1b84fc323a..603c166041 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Tue Nov  5 00:46:04 2002  Akinori MUSHA  <knu@iDaemons.org>
+
+	* ext/extmk.rb: Properly pass the given target to
+	  make(1). [pointed out by eban]
+
 Mon Nov  4 20:03:53 2002  NAKAMURA Usaku <usa@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* instruby.rb, lib/mkmf.rb: use CONFIG["ENABLE_SHARED"] instead of
diff --git a/ext/extmk.rb b/ext/extmk.rb
index 97310f841d..0ed0559e97 100644
--- a/ext/extmk.rb
+++ b/ext/extmk.rb
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ $dryrun = mflags.include?(?n)
 
 unless $message
   if $message = ARGV.shift and /^[a-z]+$/ =~ $message
+    $mflags.push($message)
     $message = $message.sub(/^(?:dist|real)(?=(?:clean)?$)/, '\1')
     case $message
     when "clean"