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From: Corbin Bird <corbinbird@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Argh, palemoon again ** 3 [Was: GCC 5.4.0]
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 13:24:27
Message-Id: 5901F0E5.5050302@charter.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Argh, palemoon again ** 3 [Was: GCC 5.4.0] by Walter Dnes
1 On 04/26/2017 11:03 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
2 > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 06:01:20AM +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote
3 >
4 >> That flag isn't mentioned here.
5 >
6 > I checked the source code. It forces the old ABI, so it should work,
7 > compiled with GCC 5.4.0, even on a Gcc 4.9.4 system...
8 >
9 > [CentOS65][pmbuilder][~/pmmaster] grep -r GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI pmsrc
10 > pmsrc/configure: CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0"
11 > pmsrc/configure: HOST_CXXFLAGS="$HOST_CXXFLAGS -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0"
12 > pmsrc/configure.in: CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0"
13 > pmsrc/configure.in: HOST_CXXFLAGS="$HOST_CXXFLAGS -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0"
14 >
15
16 Walter,
17
18 That flag "-D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0" is a CPPFLAG. It is only
19 recognized by GCC 5.1.x and higher. And it only works on GCC built with
20 dual ABI support. Gentoo doesn't support the dual ABI builds.
21
22 Info links :
23 https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/using_macros.html
24 https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/abi.html#abi.versioning.__GLIBCXX__
25 https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/configure.html
26
27 On my system, I went ahead with the switch to GCC 5.4.0.
28
29 The "-D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=1" CPPFLAG forces GCC to check IF the new
30 ABI should be applied FIRST. NO FORCING the ABI on software that doesn't
31 use it.
32
33 Putting CPPFLAGS="-D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=1" in make.conf killed almost
34 all the erorrs in the revdep-rebuild process.
35
36 Putting that in as a CFLAGS or CXXFLAGS switch caused lots of errors in
37 revdep-rebuild.
38
39 Thought you might want to know.
40
41 Corbin