Ulrich Ring wrote:
>  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.

This is due to an extra ' in the line above.  This is a general issue 
that hit Tcl and TEA-based systems following a quoting rule change in 
bash 3.1.  You can correct the configure script directly, but we will 
also make sure to update this configure script in general for the next 
release.

Jeff