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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gcc-5 news item wrt C++ ABI
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 21:32:22
Message-Id: CAJ0EP427O-eU=kFhfVzGmkFW6pL0hugBpUBwX8P6o+i9dgcm0A@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] gcc-5 news item wrt C++ ABI by Mike Frysinger
1 On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> 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 Just a heads-up: the python-based revdep-rebuild which is included
24 with gentoolkit-0.3.1 requires slightly different syntax:
25
26 # revdep-rebuild --library 'libstdc++.so.6'
27
28 I pushed a revision to the news item with updated instructions.