Is there any progress on the stl abi issues? (was: Re: [Desktop] Release Meeting 2012-06-29)

[Steve Langasek]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 08:21:39PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Le 28/06/2012 21:55, Sebastien Bacher a écrit :
> > * the gcc 4.7,libsigc,stl issues are still not fixed yet (unity
> >is build with gcc-4.6 still)

> I've been mentioning that for a few weeks but I've seen no recent
> update, is anyone working on it? Bjoern just raised the issue in the
> desktop team, those issues are blocking libreoffice work in quantal
> for some weeks and we would like to know if we need to invest
> efforts in building libreoffice with gcc-4.6.

There is work being done upstream in gcc-4.7 to try to fix the ABI for
compatibility with gcc-4.6 (and with -std=c++99).  In the meantime, yes,
any packages that are being built with -std=c++0x or -std=c++11 should use
gcc-4.6 instead.

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