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Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Tue Aug 7 17:21:53 UTC 2012


On Tuesday, August 07, 2012 12:22:32 PM Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 09:13:33AM +0200, Didier Roche wrote:
> > I don't know where are the state of our C++ libs, but I got
> > confirmation that after they got the gcc 4.7 ABI fix for c++11, they
> > indeed rebuild the whole std stack, including libsigc++.
> 
> Its the libs that I care about. Also note:
> 
>  http://jaegerandi.blogspot.de/2012/07/gcc-47-c-abi-changes-and-opensuse-122
> .html
> 
> OpenSUSE seeing the necessity to rebuild the whole stack. I dont think they
> did that just for fun.

It sounds to me like a hack to avoid having to worry about maintaining binary 
compatibility.  That's not a road we should go down.

Scott K



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