Note that in a fresh shell, cat'ing the saved file (test-output) does NOT mess
up the quotes. So it's a mysterious side-effect of calling 'make'. Also,
saying 'make xxxx' where xxxx is not a valid target, produces the appropriate
error message and does not mess up the quotes.

Any ideas?

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