Re: make-4.0 allows empty ARFLAGS to be passed to ar

[Edward Welbourne]

> It's the long one (subdir-dtc) where the problem exists.

Obvious first step: configure quiet-command to actually show the
command, or remove this wrapping from the command, so that you can see
what the sub-make actually gets invoked with.  We can guess, but it may
help to be entirely clear !  One thing to watch for: I'm not sure
whether all your quotes are actually going to survive the make-file
parsing and reach the shell ...

I'm intrigued (but it's almost certainly off topic) that your calls to
quiet-command all end in a comma, $(call quiet-command,actual command,)
- what does quiet-command do with $2 ?

        Eddy.