The problem lies in how bash 3.1.x and 4.x.x parse the configure file. This will simply pass through bash 3.0.x and lower versions. So in order to make things work I changed the above line to:
system=MP-RAS-awk ' { print $3 } '/etc/.relid
You will have to take following steps in order to bring the changes into effect: Remove the second last character ( ‘ ) from the line and do this for all the three files above. Now after changing the configuration files you will have to delete older configure file and any cache if it exists in the respective folders. After that do not forget to run autoconf from command line in the respective folders to generate a fresh configure file.