http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18346
--- Comment #8 from Dima Ryazanov dima@gmail.com 2010-01-12 13:49:11 --- It's a SCons script that runs "cl", "link", "m4", etc. In this case, it needs to run something like:
m4 -DURL=http://example.com/?a=1&b=2&c=3 ...
So we escape the ampersands with ^. I guess it's not any more complex than my "echo a^&b" example.
The other bugs I've hit so far are: bug 21338 bug 21344