make 2 doesn't seem to work as documented

Theguidetothenewbuildsystem claims, under the heading "Rebuilding the GHC binary after making changes", that make 2 "is like make stage=2, except that it omits the dependency-building phase." However, it seems to include the dependency-building and also fails with an error:

echo "utils/haddock_dist_depfile_EXISTS = YES" >> utils/haddock/dist/build/.depend
for dir in utils/haddock/dist/build/./ utils/haddock/dist/build/Haddock/ utils/haddock/dist/build/Haddock/Backends/
utils/haddock/dist/build/Haddock/GHC/ utils/haddock/dist/build/Haddock/Interface/
utils/haddock/dist/build/Haddock/Utils/; do if test ! -d $dir; then mkdir -p $dir; fi done
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `2'.  Stop.
make: *** [2] Error 2

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Trac field	Value
Version	6.11
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	Unresolved
Component	Build System
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