configure script for zsh breaks for NetBSD /bin/sh, but not for NetBSD /bin/bash

configure script for zsh breaks for NetBSD /bin/sh, but not for NetBSD /bin/bash

[Chuck Hardin]

The master configure script included in zsh v3.0.7 breaks on my NetBSD 1.4.1
box at line 1356 with the message:

./configure: 1356: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")

This is especially annoying because the case statement syntax looks perfectly
good.  It worked in bash.  There are differences between bash and sh, but as
I recall, the case statements are the same.
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Re: configure script for zsh breaks for NetBSD /bin/sh, but not for NetBSD /bin/bash

[Bart Schaefer]

On May 23,  8:19pm, Chuck Hardin wrote:
} Subject: configure script for zsh breaks for NetBSD /bin/sh, but not for N
}
} The master configure script included in zsh v3.0.7 breaks on my NetBSD 1.4.1
} box at line 1356 with the message:
} 
} ./configure: 1356: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")

There's nothing special about that case statement and it parsed several far
more complex ones near the top (e.g. the ones that parse the options passed
to configure) without complaint.  So I think that's a red herring.

It's possible that this is a memory problem of some kind, e.g. that either
a hard or soft system limit is being exceeded.  The size of the environment,
the size of the heap or stack, something like that.  In fact, that's the
only explanation I can think of.

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