diff -urN rpm-4.0.2/build/parseChangelog.c rpm-4.0.2.new/build/parseChangelog.c
--- rpm-4.0.2/build/parseChangelog.c	Tue Jan 16 00:10:04 2001
+++ rpm-4.0.2.new/build/parseChangelog.c	Thu Aug 30 23:41:32 2001
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@
     
     while (! (nextPart = isPart(spec->line))) {
 	appendStringBuf(sb, spec->line);
-	if ((rc = readLine(spec, STRIP_COMMENTS)) > 0) {
+	if ((rc = readLine(spec, STRIP_COMMENTS | STRIP_NOEXPAND)) > 0) {
 	    nextPart = PART_NONE;
 	    break;
 	}
diff -urN rpm-4.0.2/build/parseDescription.c rpm-4.0.2.new/build/parseDescription.c
--- rpm-4.0.2/build/parseDescription.c	Tue Jan 16 00:10:04 2001
+++ rpm-4.0.2.new/build/parseDescription.c	Thu Aug 30 23:41:47 2001
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
 	    appendLineStringBuf(sb, spec->line);
 	    if (t) t->t_nlines++;
 	    if ((rc =
-		 readLine(spec, STRIP_TRAILINGSPACE | STRIP_COMMENTS)) > 0) {
+		readLine(spec, STRIP_TRAILINGSPACE | STRIP_COMMENTS | STRIP_NOEXPAND)) > 0) {
 		nextPart = PART_NONE;
 		break;
 	    }
diff -urN rpm-4.0.2/build/parseSpec.c rpm-4.0.2.new/build/parseSpec.c
--- rpm-4.0.2/build/parseSpec.c	Tue Jan 16 14:08:55 2001
+++ rpm-4.0.2.new/build/parseSpec.c	Thu Aug 30 23:58:52 2001
@@ -131,12 +131,16 @@
 	ofi->readPtr = from;
 
 	/* Don't expand macros (eg. %define) in false branch of %if clause */
-	if (spec->readStack->reading &&
-	    expandMacros(spec, spec->macros, spec->lbuf, sizeof(spec->lbuf))) {
-		rpmError(RPMERR_BADSPEC, _("line %d: %s\n"),
-			spec->lineNum, spec->lbuf);
-		return RPMERR_BADSPEC;
-	}
+	/* Also don't expand macros in %changelog and %description, where 
+	  we set STRIP_NOEXPAND flag */
+	if (!(strip & STRIP_NOEXPAND)) {
+	    if (spec->readStack->reading &&
+		    expandMacros(spec, spec->macros, spec->lbuf, sizeof(spec->lbuf))) {
+			rpmError(RPMERR_BADSPEC, _("line %d: %s\n"),
+				spec->lineNum, spec->lbuf);
+			return RPMERR_BADSPEC;
+		    }
+	}	
 	spec->nextline = spec->lbuf;
     }
 
diff -urN rpm-4.0.2/build/rpmbuild.h rpm-4.0.2.new/build/rpmbuild.h
--- rpm-4.0.2/build/rpmbuild.h	Thu Jan 11 15:15:15 2001
+++ rpm-4.0.2.new/build/rpmbuild.h	Thu Aug 30 23:25:00 2001
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
 #define STRIP_NOTHING             0
 #define STRIP_TRAILINGSPACE (1 << 0)
 #define STRIP_COMMENTS      (1 << 1)
+#define STRIP_NOEXPAND      (1 << 2)
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 extern "C" {