Re: Unsupported packages for Wheezy LTS
- To: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>
- Cc: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>, debian-lts@lists.debian.org, team@security.debian.org, Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>, Christoph Goehre <chris@sigxcpu.org>, Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>, Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>, Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>, Guido Trotter <ultrotter@debian.org>, Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>, Laurent Léonard <laurent@open-minds.org>, Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org>
- Subject: Re: Unsupported packages for Wheezy LTS
- From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 17:08:37 +0900
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20151105080837.GA30988@glandium.org>
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20151105074338.GA24644@inutil.org>
- References: <20150819110259.GA8358@pisco.westfalen.local> <[🔎] 20151104164436.GC10728@home.ouaza.com> <[🔎] 20151104214703.GA25242@glandium.org> <[🔎] 20151105074338.GA24644@inutil.org>
On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 08:43:38AM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 06:47:03AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > First and foremost, while GCC 4.7 is the current
> > minimum version supported, it's likely to become GCC 4.8 in the near
> > future, because of some wanted C++11/C++14 features.
>
> That problem also bit us with chromium in wheezy. Introducing an updated
> g++ isn't simple since libstdc++ is also built from the source package.
Note that Firefox /can/ build with GCC > 4.7 but still depend on libstdc++
from GCC 4.3, thanks to nasty tricks.
https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/build/unix/stdc++compat/stdc++compat.cpp
Mike
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