configure: error: c99 structure initializer are not supported

[Dennis Clarke]

> On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 00:44 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> On an older Solaris 8 machine and Sun Studio 8 compiler I ran into
>> a problem where configure would not complete due to :
>>
>> configure: error: c99 structure initializer are not supported
>>
>> Is there any way around this ?
>>
>> Do I need to switch to Sun Studio 11 or perhaps GCC 4.2.x for the build
>> on an older piece of hardware ?
>
> Pretty much, yes.  There is no automatic way around this (we changed for
> good reason, and gained much clearer code).
>
> Andrew Bartlett

Thank you .. it all makes perfect sense of course. I will just move to a
more modern compiler and then see what happens. I have gcc 4.2.4 but I'll
give Studio 11 a try first and then see what happens.

Dennis