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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gcc-5 news item wrt C++ ABI
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 10:07:49
Message-Id: 56221DE5.2090902@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] gcc-5 news item wrt C++ ABI by Mike Frysinger
1 On 10/2/15 10:13 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > Title: GCC 5 Defaults to the New C++11 ABI
3 > Author: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
4 > Content-Type: text/plain
5 > Posted: 2015-10-02
6 > Revision: 1
7 > News-Item-Format: 1.0
8 > Display-If-Installed: >=sys-devel/gcc-5
9 >
10 > GCC 5 uses the new C++ ABI by default. When building new code, you might run
11 > into link time errors like:
12 > ...: undefined reference to '_ZNSt6chrono12steady_clock3nowEv@GLIBCXX_3.4.17'
13 > Or you might see linkage failures with "std::__cxx11::string" in the output.
14 >
15 > These are signs that you need to rebuild packages using the new C++ ABI.
16 > You can quickly do so by using revdep-rebuild like so:
17 > # revdep-rebuild --library 'libstdc\+\+\.so\.6'
18 >
19 > For more details, feel free to peruse:
20 > https://developerblog.redhat.com/2015/02/05/gcc5-and-the-c11-abi/
21 > https://blogs.gentoo.org/blueness/2015/03/10/the-c11-abi-incompatibility-problem-in-gentoo/
22
23 i know there's no rush, but let's not loose sight of this.
24
25 --
26 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
27 Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
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