diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index ff6ab0f79..5e499ab9f 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ matrix:
             - qemu-user-static
     - os: linux
       sudo: required
-      env: PLATFORM="Ubuntu 12.04" CMD="make -C tests versionsTest"
+      env: PLATFORM="Ubuntu 12.04" CMD="make -C programs zstd-small && make -C programs zstd-decompress && make -C programs zstd-compress && make -C tests versionsTest"
     - os: linux
       sudo: required
       env: PLATFORM="Ubuntu 12.04" CMD="make asan32"
diff --git a/programs/Makefile b/programs/Makefile
index 6e78d0ea9..ed26f0700 100644
--- a/programs/Makefile
+++ b/programs/Makefile
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ VOID = /dev/null
 endif
 
 
-.PHONY: default all clean install uninstall
+.PHONY: default all clean clean_decomp_o install uninstall
 
 default: zstd
 
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ zstd32 : $(ZSTDDECOMP32_O) $(ZSTD_FILES) $(ZSTDLEGACY_FILES) $(ZDICT_FILES) \
 	$(CC)  -m32 $(FLAGS) -DZSTD_LEGACY_SUPPORT=$(ZSTD_LEGACY_SUPPORT) $^ $(RES32_FILE) -o $@$(EXT)
 
 
-zstd_nolegacy :
+zstd_nolegacy : clean_decomp_o
 	$(MAKE) zstd ZSTD_LEGACY_SUPPORT=0
 
 zstd-pgo : MOREFLAGS = -fprofile-generate
@@ -108,18 +108,19 @@ zstd-pgo : clean zstd
 	$(MAKE) zstd MOREFLAGS=-fprofile-use
 
 zstd-frugal: $(ZSTDDECOMP_O) $(ZSTD_FILES) zstdcli.c fileio.c
-	$(CC)      $(FLAGS) -DZSTD_NOBENCH -DZSTD_NODICT -DZSTD_LEGACY_SUPPORT=0 $^ -o zstd$(EXT)
+	$(CC)      $(FLAGS) -DZSTD_NOBENCH -DZSTD_NODICT $^ -o zstd$(EXT)
 
-zstd-compress: $(ZSTDCOMMON_FILES) $(ZSTDCOMP_FILES) \
-	zstdcli.c fileio.c
-	$(CC)      $(FLAGS) -DZSTD_NOBENCH -DZSTD_NODICT -DZSTD_NODECOMPRESS -DZSTD_LEGACY_SUPPORT=0 $^ -o $@$(EXT)
+zstd-small: clean_decomp_o
+	ZSTD_LEGACY_SUPPORT=0 CFLAGS="-Os -s" $(MAKE) zstd-frugal
 
-zstd-decompress: $(ZSTDCOMMON_FILES) $(ZSTDDECOMP_FILES) \
-	zstdcli.c fileio.c
-	$(CC)      $(FLAGS) -DZSTD_NOBENCH -DZSTD_NODICT -DZSTD_NOCOMPRESS -DZSTD_LEGACY_SUPPORT=0 $^ -o $@$(EXT)
+zstd-decompress-clean: $(ZSTDDECOMP_O) $(ZSTDCOMMON_FILES) $(ZSTDDECOMP_FILES) zstdcli.c fileio.c
+	$(CC)      $(FLAGS) -DZSTD_NOBENCH -DZSTD_NODICT -DZSTD_NOCOMPRESS $^ -o zstd-decompress$(EXT)
 
-zstd-small: clean
-	CFLAGS="-Os -s" $(MAKE) zstd-frugal
+zstd-decompress: clean_decomp_o
+	ZSTD_LEGACY_SUPPORT=0 $(MAKE) zstd-decompress-clean
+
+zstd-compress: $(ZSTDCOMMON_FILES) $(ZSTDCOMP_FILES) zstdcli.c fileio.c
+	$(CC)      $(FLAGS) -DZSTD_NOBENCH -DZSTD_NODICT -DZSTD_NODECOMPRESS $^ -o $@$(EXT)
 
 
 clean:
@@ -130,6 +131,10 @@ clean:
         *.gcda default.profraw
 	@echo Cleaning completed
 
+clean_decomp_o:
+	@$(RM) $(ZSTDDECOMP_O)
+	@$(RM) $(ZSTDDECOMP32_O)
+
 
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #make install is validated only for Linux, OSX, kFreeBSD, Hurd and some BSD targets
diff --git a/programs/zstdcli.c b/programs/zstdcli.c
index 6d1d9f649..fe97f965c 100644
--- a/programs/zstdcli.c
+++ b/programs/zstdcli.c
@@ -231,7 +231,8 @@ int main(int argCount, const char* argv[])
     /* init */
     (void)recursive; (void)cLevelLast;    /* not used when ZSTD_NOBENCH set */
     (void)dictCLevel; (void)dictSelect; (void)dictID;  /* not used when ZSTD_NODICT set */
-    (void)decode; (void)cLevel; /* not used when ZSTD_NOCOMPRESS set */
+    (void)decode; (void)cLevel; (void)testmode;/* not used when ZSTD_NOCOMPRESS set */
+    (void)ultra; /* not used when ZSTD_NODECOMPRESS set */
     if (filenameTable==NULL) { DISPLAY("zstd: %s \n", strerror(errno)); exit(1); }
     filenameTable[0] = stdinmark;
     displayOut = stderr;
@@ -490,12 +491,14 @@ int main(int argCount, const char* argv[])
         CLEAN_RETURN(filenameIdx);
     }
 
+#ifndef ZSTD_NOCOMPRESS
     /* check compression level limits */
     {   int const maxCLevel = ultra ? ZSTD_maxCLevel() : ZSTDCLI_CLEVEL_MAX;
         if (cLevel > maxCLevel) {
             DISPLAYLEVEL(2, "Warning : compression level higher than max, reduced to %i \n", maxCLevel);
             cLevel = maxCLevel;
     }   }
+#endif
 
     /* No warning message in pipe mode (stdin + stdout) or multi-files mode */
     if (!strcmp(filenameTable[0], stdinmark) && outFileName && !strcmp(outFileName,stdoutmark) && (displayLevel==2)) displayLevel=1;