diff -ur a/mk/target.mk b/mk/target.mk
--- a/mk/target.mk	Fri Apr 28 21:17:07 2006
+++ b/mk/target.mk	Fri Apr 28 21:17:35 2006
@@ -1089,7 +1089,7 @@
 # -------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Rules to invoke the current target recursively for each way
 
-ifneq "$(WAYS)" ""
+ifneq "$(strip $(WAYS))" ""
 ifeq "$(way)" ""
 
 # NB: the targets exclude 
@@ -1101,7 +1101,7 @@
 	@echo "PWD = $(shell pwd)"
 	@echo "------------------------------------------------------------------------"
 # Don't rely on -e working, instead we check exit return codes from sub-makes.
-	@case '${MFLAGS}' in *-[ik]*) x_on_err=0;; *-r*[ik]*) x_on_err=0;; *) x_on_err=1;; esac; \
+	case '${MFLAGS}' in *-[ik]*) x_on_err=0;; *-r*[ik]*) x_on_err=0;; *) x_on_err=1;; esac; \
 	for i in $(WAYS) ; do \
 	  echo "------------------------------------------------------------------------"; \
 	  echo "==fptools== $(MAKE) way=$$i $@;"; \