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From: heroxbd@g.o
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] How to support C++11 in libraries?
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:48:06
Message-Id: 8661qlt0jd.fsf@moguhome00.in.awa.tohoku.ac.jp
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] How to support C++11 in libraries? by "Michał Górny"
1 Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> writes:
2
3 > And that brings another issue in Gentoo -- gcc-config. AFAIR this tool
4 > is completely insane and switches libstdc++ along with gcc version.
5 > As a result, after switching to a gcc version with different C++ ABI,
6 > installed software gets broken. And you can't really fix it without
7 > going through the broken-system state or some hackery.
8
9 Not that insane. Packages linked with libstdc++ are not crucial in
10 Gentoo, and can be rebuilt with emerge -e @world. Although it's a bad
11 idea for everybody to do so, the systems without "emerge -e @world" for
12 two years is likely to suck anyway.
13
14 It just reflects the fact that the world is not perfect.

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] How to support C++11 in libraries? "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] How to support C++11 in libraries? Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>