Re: Compiling and options

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2016-04-22 at 09:22 +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-04-18 at 19:57 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> […]
> > On debian, it's actually coming from the libsigc++ pkg-config file,
> > as
> > I think you'll find when you do this:
> > $ pkg-config sigc++-2.0 --cflag
> >
> > They have done this against our wishes:
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=755750#c13
>
> This has been marked as "resolved wontfix" so clearly they are
> telling
> everyone already using C++14 and C++17 to "shut up and put up", which
> I
> guess is not untypical.

That's our upstream bug. It's wontfix because we refused to put 
-std=c+=11 in the pkg-config file. But debian did it themselves anyway.

> Currently, using SCons, I can edit the -std=c++11 out and add my own
> -std=c++14, but using CMake things are far more awkward.
>
> > This is very much a distro-specific problem that you should
> > complain
> > to
> > your distro about. Sorry. I am annoyed with them, not with you.
> > Thanks
> > for letting me know.
>
> I will add a bug to the Debian archive. It seems Fedora already work
> around this somehow.

Fedora just didn't do this.

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