Re: [boost] C++03 and C++11 ABI compatibility for compiled libraries

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Lars Hagström wrote:

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Andrey Semashev wrote:

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On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Petr Machata wrote:

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I maintain Boost in Fedora, and C++03/11 incompatibility has been on my list of things to look into for some time now.

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2. Compile different versions of Boost libraries

I'm not sure how this fares with respect to autotools (by any name). We might need to update some automation to adapt to the changes in soname mangling, and to take any C++11-enabling switches into account. But I didn't look closely. Covering autotools and cmake would take us a long way towards the goal, which seems doable, so maybe #2 is the way to go.

Great, nice to hear from package maintainers. I got the same impression from the discussion, so maybe I'll try to implement a Boost.Build property to select C++ flavor.

However, I don't know much about autotools or cmake internals, so I can't tell how it will affect them.

Did you ever get anywhere with this? This issue has bitten me now, and I would really like to avoid having to build custom boost versions on Linux. The ease of installation when using the distro repos is *so* nice.

No, not really. I had a few quick attempts that failed because of my incompetence with Boost.Build and then I got distracted.