diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 69f74ebe0c1a9b13d7a979114970c93a8f1f2de3..a8f451b58ac0af3d8f8e95a78ee2d2869e03cab9 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ ROCKSDBJNILIB = ./java/librocksdbjni.jnilib
 JAVA_INCLUDE = -I/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Headers/
 endif
 
-jni: clean
+rocksdbjava: clean
 	OPT="-fPIC -DNDEBUG -O2" $(MAKE) $(LIBRARY) -j32
 	cd java;$(MAKE) java;
 	rm -f $(ROCKSDBJNILIB)