[csw-maintainers] C++ ABIs are fun (not)

[slowfranklin]

Hey Laurent!

Am 12.06.2013 um 09:58 schrieb Laurent Blume <laurent at opencsw.org>:

> On 12/06/13 07:03, Jan Holzhueter wrote:
>> The plan for C++ stuff iirc was to switch to gcc anyway. Since you build
>> a new wxwidget anyway I would should rebuild it with gcc.
> 
> I'm not against, not much in favour either: that will break all dependencies.
> Switching to g++ looks like a huge task, since everything touched should be repushed at the same time.
> And GCC has a poor track record of keeping ABI compatibility on Solaris, particularly on Sparc, so it's far from being a warranty there won't be the same issue down the path later.
> 
> I noticed that Studio 12.3 now has a g++ compatibility mode, but only on x86. If that were extended to Sparc, it'd make it much more attractive as a de facto standard ABI.
> 
> For the concern at hand, I did get help from upstream (they're cool :-) and I could get all to build.

how?

-slow