> My guess is that the parser has terminated the first '$(' on the
> case label 'base)' while trying to skip the unwanted case clause.
>
> Quite possibly it would all work if the $(...) were replaced by `...`
> (the nested one just needs a couple of \).
Hmm. Is my version incompatible to POSIX? Or do we go to "write really
portable shell script" load like Autoconf, not POSIX shell? [1]
Masao
[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/autoconf/Portable-Shell.html
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