diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e810896bab88..1a9ac3156272 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -764,7 +764,7 @@ backend-assets/grpc/llama-cpp-grpc: backend-assets/grpc
 	cp -rf backend/cpp/llama backend/cpp/llama-grpc
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/cpp/llama-grpc purge
 	$(info ${GREEN}I llama-cpp build info:grpc${RESET})
-	CMAKE_ARGS="$(CMAKE_ARGS) -DLLAMA_RPC=ON -DLLAMA_AVX=off -DLLAMA_AVX2=off -DLLAMA_AVX512=off -DLLAMA_FMA=off -DLLAMA_F16C=off" $(MAKE) VARIANT="llama-grpc" build-llama-cpp-grpc-server
+	CMAKE_ARGS="$(CMAKE_ARGS) -DLLAMA_RPC=ON -DLLAMA_AVX=off -DLLAMA_AVX2=off -DLLAMA_AVX512=off -DLLAMA_FMA=off -DLLAMA_F16C=off" TARGET="--target grpc-server --target rpc-server" $(MAKE) VARIANT="llama-grpc" build-llama-cpp-grpc-server
 	cp -rfv backend/cpp/llama-grpc/grpc-server backend-assets/grpc/llama-cpp-grpc
 
 backend-assets/util/llama-cpp-rpc-server: backend-assets/grpc/llama-cpp-grpc
diff --git a/backend/cpp/llama/Makefile b/backend/cpp/llama/Makefile
index 6fc6b49a4885..ec4882af0493 100644
--- a/backend/cpp/llama/Makefile
+++ b/backend/cpp/llama/Makefile
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ LLAMA_VERSION?=
 CMAKE_ARGS?=
 BUILD_TYPE?=
 ONEAPI_VARS?=/opt/intel/oneapi/setvars.sh
+TARGET?=--target grpc-server
 
 # If build type is cublas, then we set -DLLAMA_CUBLAS=ON to CMAKE_ARGS automatically
 ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),cublas)
@@ -62,8 +63,8 @@ grpc-server: llama.cpp llama.cpp/examples/grpc-server
 	@echo "Building grpc-server with $(BUILD_TYPE) build type and $(CMAKE_ARGS)"
 ifneq (,$(findstring sycl,$(BUILD_TYPE)))
 	bash -c "source $(ONEAPI_VARS); \
-	cd llama.cpp && mkdir -p build && cd build && cmake .. $(CMAKE_ARGS) && $(MAKE)"
+	cd llama.cpp && mkdir -p build && cd build && cmake .. $(CMAKE_ARGS) && cmake --build . --config Release $(TARGET)"
 else
-	cd llama.cpp && mkdir -p build && cd build && cmake .. $(CMAKE_ARGS) && $(MAKE)
+	cd llama.cpp && mkdir -p build && cd build && cmake .. $(CMAKE_ARGS) && cmake --build . --config Release $(TARGET)
 endif
 	cp llama.cpp/build/bin/grpc-server .
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