diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 146b630337..80ffcb5f4e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Sat Jun 26 11:56:31 2010  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* common.mk (clear-installed-list): put redirection before set
+	  command, since it seems to be handled by nmake in special way.
+	  [ruby-dev:41711]
+
 Sat Jun 26 10:08:36 2010  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* test/ruby/envutil.rb (EnvUtil#invoke_ruby): no needs to copy the
diff --git a/common.mk b/common.mk
index 255761f151..4fdcae3fc7 100644
--- a/common.mk
+++ b/common.mk
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ CLEAR_INSTALLED_LIST = clear-installed-list
 install-prereq: $(CLEAR_INSTALLED_LIST) PHONY
 
 clear-installed-list: PHONY
-	@set MAKE="$(MAKE)" > $(INSTALLED_LIST)
+	@> $(INSTALLED_LIST) set MAKE="$(MAKE)"
 
 clean: clean-ext clean-local clean-enc clean-golf clean-rdoc clean-extout
 clean-local:: PHONY