Check this out:

Originally outputted to console:

gcc ... "-DVENDOR_RELEASE=(((7) * 10000000) + ((0) * 100000) + ((0) *  1000) + 0)" ...

(Notice the quotes around it.)

work.log shows:

    (arg-source) push: -DVENDOR_RELEASE=(((7) * 10000000) + ((0) * 100000) + ((0) * 1000) + 0)

...

    (logic) pop:  -DVENDOR_RELEASE=(((7) * 10000000) + ((0) * 100000) + ((0) * 1000) + 0)
    (logic) to:   -DVENDOR_RELEASE=(((7) * 10000000) + ((0) * 100000) + ((0) * 1000) + 0)
    (logic) push: -DVENDOR_RELEASE=(((7) * 10000000) + ((0) * 100000) + ((0) * 1000) + 0)

...

    (cmd-sink) pop: -DVENDOR_RELEASE=(((7) * 10000000) + ((0) * 100000) + ((0) * 1000) + 0)

...


<.> /home/packages/tmp-pkgsrc/wip/xorg-server/work.glacier/.gcc/bin/gcc 
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include -I../Xprint 
-I/home/packages/tmp-pkgsrc/wip/xorg-server 
/work.glacier/.buildlink/include -DHAVE_DIX_CONFIG_H -DXFree86Server 
-DXFree86LOADER "-DVENDOR_STRING=\"The X.Org Foundation\"" 
"-DVENDOR_RELEASE=(((7) BuiltInAtoms CHANGES Makefile Makefile.am 
Makefile.in atom.c atom.lo buildatoms colormap.c colormap.lo cursor.c 
cursor.lo devices.c devices.lo dispatch.c dispatch.h dispatch.lo 
dixfonts.c dixfonts.lo dixutils.c dixutils.lo events.c events.lo 
extension.c extension.lo ffs.c ffs.lo gc.c gc.lo globals.c globals.lo 
glyphcurs.c glyphcurs.lo grabs.c grabs.lo initatoms.c initatoms.lo main.c 
main.c.orif main.c.orig main.loT pixmap.c privates.c property.c resource.c 
swaprep.c swapreq.c tables.c window.c xpstubs.c 10000000) + ((0) 
BuiltInAtoms CHANGES Makefile Makefile.am
...
(and so on)


Makefile.am and Makefile.in starts with in AM_CFLAGS:
-DVENDOR_RELEASE="@VENDOR_RELEASE@"

Makefile has:

 -DVENDOR_RELEASE="(((7) * 10000000) + ((0) * 100000) + ((0) * 1000) + 0)"

The final quotes add around it (shown at top of this email) was done by 
libtool.

Where can the mk/wrapper framework be improved to not modify stuff in 
quotes?

I can send-pr this if needed.

 Jeremy C. Reed

echo '9,J8HD,fDGG8B@?:536FC5=8@I;C5?@H5B0D@5GBIELD54DL>@8L?:5GDEJ8LDG1' |\
sed ss,s50EBsg | tr 0-M 'p.wBt SgiIlxmLhan:o,erDsduv/cyP'