On 2 October 2012 12:40, Maxim Yegorushkin wrote: > Thanks for the reply Jon, > > It would be nice to be able to build gcc-4.7.2 without maintaining > binary compatibility with previous versions of gcc-4.7 since, for > example, I like to recompile the whole codebase when switching to a > newer version of a compiler just to eliminate any uncertainty arising > from possible binary ABI compatibility issues. Something like > --no-legacy-abi configure switch. Hmm, yes, I can see that being useful for a subset of users - but note that in theory you might need to recompile your entire distro. If you link to any system libs that were built with an older GCC they might have references to legacy ABI symbols in libstdc++.so.
