> The correct way to quote $words[1] would have been «${(q)words[1]}», but
> elements of $words are already command-line quoted so they don't need to
> be quoted again.  That is: just using $words[1] directly would be correct.
> (modulo noglob, but don't worry about that)

Thank you for the explanation.

If one's make points to gmake instead of bmake, $words[1] itself will
not be gmake. New patch attached fixes that, by looking for GNU in
`$words[1] -v`. Sorry about that, didn't think about it before ;p