On Fri, 24 Jul 2020, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
It looks like it's not easy to disable these tests even with low-level
hackery. It would be better if there were still a way to set the preferred
level of C and C++ in an official way.
Wow! I am glad that you got here first.
Particularly as applies to C++, it is useful to be able to set an
upper bar (and lower bar) for the C++ version requested because C++11
is in many ways not similar to older C++. I am already aware that
some of my own software will not compile with C++11 because of removed
deprecated features which I have not attended to yet in the code.
Furthermore, the ABI often changes between C++ versions and it is
useful to be able to specify the C++ version for purposes of the ABI.
It is true that the person running the configure script can usually
supply additional options which request a particular standards
version, and it would be important that Autoconf respect such requests
if they were supplied.
Bob
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