vim ":make" -- "unmatched `" error

[will trillich <will@serensoft.com>]

i'm in vim, i'm editing like a madman (nothing else explains it)
and i write out my changes

	:w<cr>

and then i do a make:

	:make<cr>

which displays

			<== blank line, here>
	Unmatched `.
	all up-to-date
			<== blank line, again>
	Hit ENTER or type command to continue

the Makefile contains

	default : $(STAMPFILES)
		@echo "all up-to-date"

so i can see when make is executing.  to figure out where the
"Unmatched `" comes from i tried "make" from the command line--

	$ make
	all up-to-date
	$ 

so it's not make, per se. what other suspect is there, besides a
vim macro? how (else) would i track this down?

i also tried

	vim -V team.sql
	[snippety snip]
	finished sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim61/plugin/rrhelper.vim
	Searching for "/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/plugin/*.vim"
	Searching for "/home/will/.vim/after/plugin/*.vim"
	Reading viminfo file "/home/will/.viminfo" info
[here's where i get to edit, then i do :make and...]

	Calling shell to execute: "make  |& tee /tmp/v190198/0"
	Unmatched `.
	psql -d serensoft -f team.sql &> team.sql.out
	all up-to-date

	Hit ENTER or type command to continue

so -V didn't help much either. where's the unmatched backtick
gonna be found?

(i did recently change my tcsh "complete" pattern for make:

	% complete make
	'n/-f/f/' 'p@*@`perl -ne 'if (/^([^\s#.][-\w.%]+)\s*:/) {print "$1 "}' Makefile`@'

but surely that's unrelated...)

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