Re: ncurses config.status cases error for non-bash

[Jay K]

Ah. Darn. Tru64.

This is the first&only time I've seen this.

 I changed #! to /bin/env bash to workaround, or edited the few that hit (there are many there, but only a few are run).

It is working otherwise.

Thank you,

 - Jay

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From: Thomas Dickey
Sent: Thursday, July 8, 2021 12:22 AM
To: Jay K
Cc: bug-ncurses@gnu.org
Subject: Re: config.status cases error for non-bash

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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