I just started looking at swish-e last week, and after successfully
installing 1.2.4 here (Solaris 2.6 (Sparc), Sun's workshop C compiler
4.2) I noticed 1.3.1 today, downloaded it, and the compiler bombed with
this in http.c:

/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -c -g http.c
"http.c", line 261: non-constant initializer: op "NAME"
"http.c", line 264: non-constant initializer: op "NAME"
cc: acomp failed for http.c

The first line in question is this:
   char *commandline[] = { perlpath, spiderprogram, spiderfilesbasename,
url, 0 };

I don't see why the compiler should have a problem with the assignment
-- trial and error identified "url" as the culprit.  I thought it might
be an optimizer problem first, but that wasn't it.

Anyway, here's a workaround if you're on the same platform and see this
problem:

if (*perlpath) {
    char *commandline[] = { perlpath, spiderprogram,
spiderfilesbasename, 0, 0 };
    commandline[3] = url;
    rv = run(commandline);
} else {
    char *commandline[] = { spiderprogram, spiderfilesbasename, 0, 0 };
    commandline[2] = url;
    rv = run(commandline);
}

Once "url" is replaced by a constant in the { } initializer, and then
changed to point to what it's supposed to (each time), the compiler is
happy and life is good again.

...Steve
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Steve van der Burg
Technical Analyst, Information Services
London Health Sciences Centre
London, Ontario, Canada
Email: steve.vanderburg@lhsc.on.ca