My trial to build a version of tbcload failed. After

(1) tar xf tbcload_src.tar.gz
(2) cd tbcload_src
(3) ./configure

..the script stopped working with these last messages:

checking if 64bit Sparc VIS support is requested... no
checking system version (for dynamic loading)... ./configure: line 9943: 
syntax error near unexpected token `('
./configure: line 9943: `    case `(ac_space=' '; set | grep ac_space) 2> &1` 
in' 

I'm running on a Linux-2.6.16 system with gcc-4.1.0.

I succeeded after uncommenting lines 6863-6865, and finally,
I deleted the ' character immediately after .relid, since it seemed
suspect to me. 

This line corresponds to:

tcl.m4: 591         system=MP-RAS-`awk '{print $3}' /etc/.relid'`

But in fact, I do not understand the quoted error messages above.

Best, Ulrich