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Re: config.status cases error for non-bash
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: config.status cases error for non-bash |
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Wed, 7 Jul 2021 20:22:50 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) |
On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 10:44:06AM +0000, Jay K wrote:
> ./config.status: syntax error at line 1179: `(' unexpected
>
> cases in ncurses aclocal.m4 all/many have leading parens.
>
> I've never seen that. Though it does look nice, to balance them.
>
> I guess it is bash-ism?
no, it's POSIX (for the last 25 years or so).
> Fix it?
it's correct as is. Perhaps you're using Solaris 10, which is mentioned
in the release notes for ncurses 6:
https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/announce-6.0.html#h4-config-major
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