[krbdev.mit.edu #1384] case with no branches breaks configure scripts

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>Submitter-Id:	net
>Originator:	Donn Cave
>Organization:
	University Computing Services
	University of Washington
>Confidential:	no
>Synopsis:	case with no branches breaks configure scripts
>Severity:	serious
>Priority:	low
>Category:	krb5-build
>Class:		sw-bug
>Release:	krb5-1.3-alpha1
>Environment:
	NetBSD 1.6
System: NetBSD xeno 1.6 NetBSD 1.6 (GENERIC) #0: Sun Sep 8 19:43:40 UTC 2002 autobuild at tgm.daemon.org:/autobuild/i386/OBJ/autobuild/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386


>Description:
Most configure scripts have a "case" statement with no branches -
      case $ac_dest in
      esac

No problem for bash, but is an error for the "ash" shell ("expected )".)
>How-To-Repeat:
Try to run configure under NetBSD.
>Fix:
Don't know - I gather it may come from within autoconf, when processing
CONFIG_COMMANDS from aclocal.m4.

Of course one may use a shell that doesn't come with the distribution,
or process the files with awk to insert the necessary line (what I did),
but I assume "fix" means make autoconf work.


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