can someone enlighten me??

[Farkas Levente]

hi,
i need some hep from some rpm experts!:-( i spend way too much time with
it so please someone tell me the reason.
suppose i write into mingw32-macros.mingw32:
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%_mingw32_cflags          -O2 -g
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the values are not important just there is no line break in it, but if i
write:
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%_mingw32_cflags          -O2 \\\
                          -g
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the compile, install etc and:
VAR="`rpm --eval %{_mingw32_cflags}`";set|grep VAR
then the outputs:
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VAR=$'-O2 \\\n                            -g '
VAR='-O2 -g'
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   ^^^
you see if there is a line break then there is an extra "$" at the
beginning!
why?
and how can i remove it?
it's not a problem here, but it's a real pain for much longer and
complicated macro.
thanks in advance.
yours.

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  Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"