diff --git a/usr.bin/make/make.1 b/usr.bin/make/make.1
index b35649e61c1c..c0b797c5ed15 100644
--- a/usr.bin/make/make.1
+++ b/usr.bin/make/make.1
@@ -606,8 +606,8 @@ The
 modifier is just like the
 .Cm S
 modifier except that the old and new strings, instead of being
-simple strings, are a regular expression (see
-.Xr regex 3 )
+simple strings, are an extended regular expression (see
+.Xr re_format 7 )
 and an
 .Xr ed 1 Ns \-style
 replacement string.