Re: Using C++11

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2015-06-29 at 14:43 +0200, Kalev Lember wrote:
> On 06/29/2015 02:27 PM, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-06-29 at 12:03 +0200, Kalev Lember wrote:
> > > All of Fedora 23 (scheduled for release this October / November) is
> > > built with the new C++11 ABI.
> >
> > Interesting. Thanks. Is there some official Fedora page about that? 
>
> http://developerblog.redhat.com/2015/02/10/gcc-5-in-fedora/ has all the
> details - this is probably the most up to date page we have right now.
>
> The short summary is that both Fedora 22 and Fedora 23 ship GCC 5 as the
> system compiler, but with different defaults: in Fedora 22 all the
> packages are built with the older C++ ABI, whereas all of Fedora 23 is
> built with the new C++11 ABI.

This means that any apps must be rebuilt in Fedora 23, right? For
instance, if someone has an app that they have packaged themselves under
Fedora 21, they can expect that app to not run under Fedora 23 unless
they rebuild it? So it's an ABI break.


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