[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Add macro '%-x**' containing all occurrences of the flag '-x' (PR #2449)

[Frank Dana]

@rhabacker 

> shows that the quoting is done by the shell and not by getopt itself. The conclusion is that something similar must be done before calling getopt in rpm to process macro parameters with quotes.

Isn't that `%quote`, like @pmatilai mentioned? Going back to your experiments (braces added to output for clarity):

```console
$ rpm --define '%foo(D:) [%{-D}]' --eval '%foo -D%{quote:44 55} argument' 
[-D 44 55]
$ rpm --define '%foo(D:) [%{-D*}]' --eval '%foo -D%{quote:44 55} argument'
[44 55]


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