diff --git a/test/Makefile b/test/Makefile
index 3c2412a7dc8a688cae2ed8fee49ef13f405a277c..026c770e6d855e9bf7021117c8265163da54d62f 100644
--- a/test/Makefile
+++ b/test/Makefile
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 # Author: Fons Rademakers, 29/2/2000
 
 RC     := root-config
+ifeq ($(findstring $(MAKECMDTARGET),clean),)
 ifeq ($(shell which $(RC) 2>&1 | sed -ne "s@.*/$(RC)@$(RC)@p"),$(RC))
 MKARCH := $(wildcard $(shell $(RC) --etcdir)/Makefile.arch)
 RCONFIG := $(wildcard $(shell $(RC) --incdir)/RConfigure.h)
@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ ROOTSYS = ..
 endif
 include $(ROOTSYS)/etc/Makefile.arch
 endif
+endif
 # Tutorials dir needed by stressProof
 ifneq ($(RCONFIG),)
 TUTDIR := $(wildcard $(shell grep ROOTDOCDIR $(RCONFIG) | sed "s|.*\"\(.*\)\"|\1|")/tutorials)