enquote invocation of $(ML_EXE) => "$(ML_EXE)"
enquote invocation of $(ML_EXE) => "$(ML_EXE)"

This helped to get over

[ build ASM ] basic/source/runtime/wnt-x86
/bin/sh: /cygdrive/c/Programme/Microsoft: No such file or directory

when blanks are in the path as in
--with-asm-home="/cygdrive/c/Programme/Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0/VC/bin"

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