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by masklinn 2385 days ago
> My guess is make(1) is to distinguish from make(1p) - http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/make.1p.html

Or just reflexively included just in case, because of commonly encountering potentially ambiguous situations that you just disambiguate by default, even for non-ambiguous situations.