config.status cases error for non-bash

[Jay K]

./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?

Fix it?

This is just the start, I can do it all if tacitly approved.

diff --git a/aclocal.m4 b/aclocal.m4
index d48cde0c..fecda97d 100644
--- a/aclocal.m4
+++ b/aclocal.m4
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ dnl Provide configure-script defaults for different ncurses 
ABIs.
 AC_DEFUN([CF_ABI_DEFAULTS],[
 AC_REQUIRE([CF_NCURSES_WITH_ABI_VERSION])
 case x$cf_cv_abi_version in
-(x[[6789]])
+x[[6789]])
        cf_dft_ext_colors=yes
        cf_dft_ext_const=yes
        cf_dft_ext_mouse=yes
@@ -177,11 +177,11 @@ cf_new_extra_cppflags=
 for cf_add_cflags in $1
 do
 case "$cf_fix_cppflags" in
-(no)
+no)
        case "$cf_add_cflags" in
        (-undef|-nostdinc*|-I*|-D*|-U*|-E|-P|-C)
                case "$cf_add_cflags" in
-               (-D*)
+               -D*)
                        cf_tst_cflags=`echo "${cf_add_cflags}" |sed -e 
's/^-D[[^=]]*='\''\"[[^"]]*//'`
 
                        test "x${cf_add_cflags}" != "x${cf_tst_cflags}" \
@@ -198,11 +198,11 @@ case "$cf_fix_cppflags" in
                        ;;
                esac
                case "$CPPFLAGS" in
-               (*$cf_add_cflags)
+               *$cf_add_cflags)


Thank you,
 - Jay