It appears the problem was not with the command line parser but the rsh plm. I don't know why this problem was not occuring before the command line parser changes but it appears to be resolved now.
This commit was SVN r27527.
The following SVN revision numbers were found above:
r27451 --> open-mpi/ompi@d59034e6ef
r27456 --> open-mpi/ompi@ecdbf34937
This merges the branch containing the revamped build system based around converting autogen from a bash script to a Perl program. Jeff has provided emails explaining the features contained in the change.
Please note that configure requirements on components HAVE CHANGED. For example. a configure.params file is no longer required in each component directory. See Jeff's emails for an explanation.
This commit was SVN r23764.