diff --git a/subdir.mak b/subdir.mak
index aba2fe0c2f..406a1fc466 100644
--- a/subdir.mak
+++ b/subdir.mak
@@ -36,15 +36,6 @@ define RULES
 $(SUBDIR)%$(EXESUF): $(SUBDIR)%.o
 	$$(LD) $(FFLDFLAGS) -o $$@ $$^ -l$(FULLNAME) $(FFEXTRALIBS) $$(ELIBS)
 
-clean::
-	$(RM) $(addprefix $(SUBDIR),*-example$(EXESUF) *-test$(EXESUF) $(CLEANFILES) $(CLEANSUFFIXES) $(LIBSUFFIXES)) \
-	    $(addprefix $(SUBDIR), $(foreach suffix,$(CLEANSUFFIXES),$(addsuffix /$(suffix),$(DIRS)))) \
-	    $(HOSTOBJS) $(HOSTPROGS)
-
-distclean:: clean
-	$(RM)  $(addprefix $(SUBDIR),$(DISTCLEANSUFFIXES)) \
-            $(addprefix $(SUBDIR), $(foreach suffix,$(DISTCLEANSUFFIXES),$(addsuffix /$(suffix),$(DIRS))))
-
 $(SUBDIR)$(SLIBNAME): $(SUBDIR)$(SLIBNAME_WITH_MAJOR)
 	$(Q)cd ./$(SUBDIR) && $(LN_S) $(SLIBNAME_WITH_MAJOR) $(SLIBNAME)
 
@@ -57,6 +48,15 @@ ifdef SUBDIR
 $(SUBDIR)$(SLIBNAME_WITH_MAJOR): $(DEP_LIBS)
 endif
 
+clean::
+	$(RM) $(addprefix $(SUBDIR),*-example$(EXESUF) *-test$(EXESUF) $(CLEANFILES) $(CLEANSUFFIXES) $(LIBSUFFIXES)) \
+	    $(addprefix $(SUBDIR), $(foreach suffix,$(CLEANSUFFIXES),$(addsuffix /$(suffix),$(DIRS)))) \
+	    $(HOSTOBJS) $(HOSTPROGS)
+
+distclean:: clean
+	$(RM)  $(addprefix $(SUBDIR),$(DISTCLEANSUFFIXES)) \
+            $(addprefix $(SUBDIR), $(foreach suffix,$(DISTCLEANSUFFIXES),$(addsuffix /$(suffix),$(DIRS))))
+
 install-lib$(NAME)-shared: $(SUBDIR)$(SLIBNAME)
 	$(Q)mkdir -p "$(SHLIBDIR)"
 	$$(INSTALL) -m 755 $$< "$(SHLIBDIR)/$(SLIBNAME_WITH_VERSION)"