diff --git a/Source/cmUnixMakefileGenerator.cxx b/Source/cmUnixMakefileGenerator.cxx
index e695db031..b932793fc 100644
--- a/Source/cmUnixMakefileGenerator.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmUnixMakefileGenerator.cxx
@@ -1861,7 +1861,7 @@ void cmUnixMakefileGenerator::OutputMakeRule(std::ostream& fout,
     {
     replace = command;
     m_Makefile->ExpandVariablesInString(replace);
-    if(replace[0] != '-' || replace.find("echo") != 0  
+    if(replace[0] != '-' && replace.find("echo") != 0  
        && replace.find("$(MAKE)") != 0)
       {
       fout << "\t" << "echo " << replace.c_str() << "\n";