On Fri, May 26, 2017, at 13:07 CDT, Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 20 May 2017 19:38:01 +0200 > "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> - Globally setting -std=c++14 in upcoming 17.0 profiles > > A bit late to the party, but what was the outcome of the meeting, esp. > this part ? > > I'm not sure if default CXXFLAGS would make such a difference since > most people would override them. Exactly. Setting this in CXXFLAGS is not a great idea. Forcing via SPEC file is equally hacky. > OTOH, masking <gcc-6 (*) on those profiles makes a lot of sense: it'll > default to gnu++14 in a better way than with profiles and since I > think one of the points of the new profiles is to force default-pie, > it'll also avoid people using gcc5- that would not build pie by > default and have issues when switching to a gcc6+ This is exactly what is planned :-) Best, Matthias
