problems with awk in a make file

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

I'm having a problem that I just can't understand. I have a log file that
contains, among other things, the line:

usf-tools 0.7.00

I have a make file with the line:

SVER := $(shell grep "usf-tools" ./logfile |awk 'NR == 1 { print $2 }')

that doesn't work properly. SVER for this line is set to:

usf-tools 0.7.00

I know the awk command is executing, because I only get the first line
(grep returns every line in the file with "usf-tools" in the line)

My first response was "well this must be a quoting problem", so I tried
both "" and ''.

Using '' returns the same value as without quotes. Using "" returns
nothing.

Also, when I try the command in a shell everything works as expected, and
SVER = 0.7.00, so this is something particular to a make file...

Can anyone point to the nit that is either missing or present that makes
this fail in the make file?

Thanks,

Dwarf
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