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diff --git a/doc/ref_make_macros.inc b/doc/ref_make_macros.inc
index 5bef79f44..b36a82575 100644
--- a/doc/ref_make_macros.inc
+++ b/doc/ref_make_macros.inc
@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ For the package *foo* and the *compile* stage, this macro will output::
finished target foo.compile
+.. _clean:
+
clean
~~~~~
@@ -108,6 +110,10 @@ and the directory to unpack to is taken from the ``<PKG>_DIR`` variable.
This macro doesn't do anything if ``<PKG>_URL`` points to a local directory
instead of an archive or online URL.
+The target directory is not removed, so ``extract`` can be used multipe
+times in a row to extract several archives. Usually :ref:`clean` is
+called before the first ``extract``.
+
compile
~~~~~~~