[Buildroot] trylink causes build errors

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 02:05:01PM -0800, No One wrote:
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>Picked up the latest via svn (16637), did a default configuration with make menuconfig, ran make and got the following errors:
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>make[1]: Entering directory `/home/will/box/buildroot/build_i686/busybox'
>  LINK    busybox_unstripped
>/home/will/box/buildroot/build_i686/busybox/scripts/trylink: 5: function: not found
>/home/will/box/buildroot/build_i686/busybox/scripts/trylink: 11: Syntax error: "}" unexpected

What shell are you using?
does 
$ function foo () { echo bar ; }
$ foo
bar
$ unset foo

work? (note the parentheses)
If so, then bug vda resp. the busybox list or fix it upstream.

HTH,