On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 09:52 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> Didn't we have a mass rebuild due to a C++ ABI change 1 or 2 years >> ago? > > Standard C++ does not specify an ABI. Compilers get to handle that > themselves. > Correct (which can be regarded as a weakness of C++. While you can usually mix libraries compiled by other C compilers, you cannot do this with C++, in general). But for our practical purposes (since most Fedora C++ packages are compiled with gcc), we are tied to the ABI stability of gcc, e.g. https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/813 Best, Orcan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
