Roger Leigh created XERCESC-2141:
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Summary: Enable C++11/14 with autoconf build
Key: XERCESC-2141
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESC-2141
Project: Xerces-C++
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Build
Reporter: Roger Leigh
Attachments: 0001-autoconf-Enable-C-14-or-C-11-when-available.patch
The CMake build will try to put the compiler in C++14 mode, falling back to
C++11 then C++98. The autoconf build doesn't do this, and the attached patch
makes the behaviour match so both build systems will use the same fallbacks.
Current compilers default to C++14. Very old compilers have no support for
C++11 or C++14. But compilers in between support it, but not by default. This
adds the feature tests to check for such support and enable it when available.
The CMake C++ standard support is user-configurable by setting the
CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD setting. Autoconf doesn't provide any way to do this, so
the feature enabling isn't explicitly overridable. I'm not sure if that's too
problematic. The main compatibility concern might be if this causes an ABI
break with use of C++11/14 library features like the new string type. However,
we aren't making use of any of these features. The main change would be the
XMLCh type switch from uint16_t to char16_t. I'm not sure what the Xerces
policy for such changes has been in the past. Any thoughts?
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