diff --git a/make/cleandirs.mk b/make/cleandirs.mk
index 1acfa400..ce242231 100644
--- a/make/cleandirs.mk
+++ b/make/cleandirs.mk
@@ -1,15 +1,23 @@
 .NOTPARALLEL:
 
-all:
-install:
+all: do.all
+install: do.install
 clean: do.clean
 distclean: do.distclean
 
 include $(MODDIR)/make/defs.mk
 
 SUBDIRS ?= $(FIND_SUBDIRS)
+SUBDIRS_ALL ?=
+SUBDIRS_INSTALL ?=
+
+do.all:
+	set -e; for d in $(SUBDIRS_ALL); do make -wC $$d $*; done
+
+do.install:
+	set -e; for d in $(SUBDIRS_INSTALL); do make -wC $$d $*; done
 
 do.%:
-	set -e; for d in $(SUBDIRS) ; do make -wC $$d $*; done
+	set -e; for d in $(SUBDIRS); do make -wC $$d $*; done
 	rm -rf $(TEXTCLEAN) $(CLEAN) *.done *~ .*.swp *.tmp core *.rep dirs-*.done