diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index ed5a34cab7..699529c77f 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ Thu Sep 12 12:45:34 1995  steve chamberlain  <sac@slash.cygnus.com>
 
 Tue Sep 12 12:14:33 1995  Ian Lance Taylor  <ian@cygnus.com>
 
+	* Makefile.in (do_maintainer_clean): Rename from do_realclean.
+	(maintainer-clean): Rename from realclean, passing
+	maintainer-clean down to subdirectories, but leave realclean as a
+	synonym.
+
 	* linker.c (_bfd_generic_link_add_one_symbol): Pass symbol name to
 	warning callback.
 
diff --git a/bfd/Makefile.in b/bfd/Makefile.in
index d01a03d629..073b2bf169 100644
--- a/bfd/Makefile.in
+++ b/bfd/Makefile.in
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ do_distclean: do_clean
 # this makefile.  Well, they can, but only via an explicit "make headers";
 # the makefile does not regenerate them as needed.  So I guess we should not
 # remove them in realclean.
-do_realclean: do_distclean
+do_maintainer_clean: do_distclean
 
 mostlyclean: do_mostlyclean
 	$(MAKE) subdir_do DO=mostlyclean "DODIRS=$(SUBDIRS)" $(FLAGS_TO_PASS)
@@ -390,9 +390,9 @@ clean: do_clean
 distclean:
 	$(MAKE) subdir_do DO=distclean "DODIRS=$(SUBDIRS)" $(FLAGS_TO_PASS)
 	$(MAKE) do_distclean
-clobber realclean:
-	$(MAKE) subdir_do DO=realclean "DODIRS=$(SUBDIRS)" $(FLAGS_TO_PASS)
-	$(MAKE) do_realclean
+clobber maintainer-clean realclean:
+	$(MAKE) subdir_do DO=maintainer-clean "DODIRS=$(SUBDIRS)" $(FLAGS_TO_PASS)
+	$(MAKE) do_maintainer_clean
 
 BFD_H_DEPS= $(INCDIR)/ansidecl.h $(INCDIR)/obstack.h
 LOCAL_H_DEPS= libbfd.h sysdep.h config.h