Re: Using C++11

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2015-06-29 at 14:53 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> 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.
(Assuming that the app uses a C++ library such as boost or gtkmm.)

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