diff --git a/doc/fr/Makefile b/doc/fr/Makefile
index f013481ea..93bd07fbf 100644
--- a/doc/fr/Makefile
+++ b/doc/fr/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 REST2HTML = rst2html
 RST2LATEX = ../scripts/rst2latex.py
 PDFLATEX = pdflatex
-RM = rm -r
 
 all: wcs-admin.pdf wcs-admin.html
 
@@ -9,7 +8,7 @@ all: wcs-admin.pdf wcs-admin.html
 	$(REST2HTML) --stylesheet=default.css --link-stylesheet --language=fr $? > $@
 
 figures-no-alpha-stamp:
-	-$(RM) -r figures-no-alpha/
+	-rm -rf figures-no-alpha/
 	mkdir figures-no-alpha/
 	for F in figures/*.png; do \
 		../scripts/removealpha.sh $$F figures-no-alpha/`basename $$F`; \
@@ -26,10 +25,10 @@ figures-no-alpha-stamp:
 	logfile=`echo "$@" |sed -r "s/(.*)....$$/\\1/"`.log; while [ -f "$$logfile" -a -n "`grep "Rerun to get cross-references right" $$logfile`" ]; do $(PDFLATEX) $< ; done
 
 clean:
-	-$(RM) *.aux *.toc *.log *.out
-	-$(RM) wcs-admin.pdf
-	-$(RM) wcs-admin.tex
-	-$(RM) wcs-admin.html
-	-$(RM) -r figures-no-alpha figures-no-alpha-stamp
+	-rm *.aux *.toc *.log *.out
+	-rm wcs-admin.pdf
+	-rm wcs-admin.tex
+	-rm wcs-admin.html
+	-rm -rf figures-no-alpha figures-no-alpha-stamp
 
 .PHONY: all clean