This change got committed into the official eglibc repository in commit 11461.
Thanks to Philip Prindeville for pointing this out.
SVN-Revision: 27264
--- /dev/null
+diff --git a/trunk/libc/manual/Makefile b/trunk/libc/manual/Makefile
+index 754bf12..40c83be 100644
+--- a/libc/manual/Makefile
++++ b/libc/manual/Makefile
+@@ -243,7 +243,10 @@ ifdef objpfx
+ .PHONY: stubs
+ stubs: $(objpfx)stubs
+ endif
+-$(objpfx)stubs ../po/manual.pot $(objpfx)stamp%:
++$(objpfx)stubs ../po/manual.pot:
++ $(make-target-directory)
++ touch $@
++$(objpfx)stamp%:
+ $(make-target-directory)
+ touch $@
+