>Here's the output of `make -dx' in perl5.  zsh is broken in a very similar
>way.  Note at the end, that we really invoked 'make install-depends' but

Thanks, this is consistent with the conclusion I came to.

>Can whoever touched `make' last please look at this?

Sorry, I have.  I sent a patch to tech-{pkg,toolchain} for comment 
yesterday... - essentially it allows pkgsrc to turn off the propagation
of command line var assignments via MAKEFLAGS.


--sjg