Handling 'initializer element not constant' error

Hi,

I had some C code written which initialized a global variable as:

FILE *yyerfp = stdout;

This used to work fine in older versions of gcc. Now, when I tried to
compile this code (with gcc 3.2.3),
I got errors like:

.../Include/Message.h:42: initializer element is not constant

I looked around the www and found that stdin/stdout/stderr are *not*
made const in the newer
versions of gcc.

As a work-around, I thought of this:

FILE *yyerfp;        // Uninitialized global

// Initialize it in a separate function
void initializeGlobals( void )
{
    yyerfp = stdout;
}

int main( ... )
{
    // Initialize the global before doing anything else
    initializeGlobals();
    ...
    // Do other things
}

But, this code will also be compiled into a shared object, dynamically
loadable from other
languages such as perl etc. and I do not want to change the API
interface there. If I follow
this approach, I also have to add the initializeGlobals() call in
every perl program which uses
this library.

What is the best way of solving this problem?

Thanks
Gowtham