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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] How to support C++11 in libraries?
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 16:56:13
Message-Id: 20131219165602.3084aa91@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] How to support C++11 in libraries? by heroxbd@gentoo.org
1 On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 22:47:50 +0900
2 heroxbd@g.o wrote:
3 > Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> writes:
4 > > And that brings another issue in Gentoo -- gcc-config. AFAIR this
5 > > tool is completely insane and switches libstdc++ along with gcc
6 > > version. As a result, after switching to a gcc version with
7 > > different C++ ABI, installed software gets broken. And you can't
8 > > really fix it without going through the broken-system state or some
9 > > hackery.
10 >
11 > Not that insane. Packages linked with libstdc++ are not crucial in
12 > Gentoo, and can be rebuilt with emerge -e @world. Although it's a bad
13 > idea for everybody to do so, the systems without "emerge -e @world"
14 > for two years is likely to suck anyway.
15 >
16 > It just reflects the fact that the world is not perfect.
17
18 Gentoo is the only distribution that gets this wrong. It's self
19 inflicted, not a problem with the world.
20
21 --
22 Ciaran McCreesh

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