Problem compiling tinc-1.0.8 on gcc-2.95

[Guus Sliepen]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 01:27:39PM +0200, Unknown wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Guus Sliepen wrote:
> > Although it would be nice to have tinc running on older platforms, I personally
> > do not want to support compilers versions that are almost a decade old. In
> > fact, I would really like to use all the features C99 offers, and get rid of
> > workarounds for old systems where possible.
> 
> Well.. Im using VMware FreeBSD 4.11 image for network emulation.
> Compiling GCC there would be quite overkill..
> It was just faster to fix tinc.

It appears that the whole union+anonymous struct thing is not supported in C99
according to GCC. So, I have removed it at last, you might want to try
compiling the latest version from git to see if it works on older platforms
again.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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