On 2024-05-28 01:20, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
I am not aware of any distro ever changing the default -std setting for g++ or clang++. Are you attempting to solve a non-problem, but introducing new ones?
If it's a non-problem for C++, why does Autoconf upgrade to C++11 when the default is C++98? Autoconf has done so since Autoconf 2.70 (2020), with nobody complaining as far as I know.
Was the Autoconf 2.70 change done so late that it had no practical effect, because no distro was defaulting to C++98 any more? If so, it sounds like Autoconf should go back to its 2.69 behavior and not mess with the C++ version as that's more likely to hurt than help.
For background on that Autoconf 2.70 change, see this 2013 thread: https://lists.gnu.org/r/autoconf/2013-01/msg00016.html
