[Removing debian-devel from Cc] On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 at 13:31:32 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > If you want to change that, that change should be made in dpkg-buildflags.
>From the original report: > >On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 at 10:34:29 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > >>It appears Debian built the library with GCC, and GCC used > >>_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI. The user then compiled with Clang and caught a > >>link error. The tools did not warn him about the problems, so the > >>report trickled downhill to us. it isn't clear to me whether that would have helped: dpkg-buildflags only affects the warnings emitted when Debian packages are built, whereas a change in gcc would also affect the warnings emitted when upstream software is built on Debian. Jeffrey: who is "us", and does the problematic link step involve libraries from Debian packages, libraries you have previously compiled yourself, or both? During which compilation/linking step would you have expected to see this warning? It would be useful to have the steps to reproduce the issue you are reporting, in terms something like this: - compile libfoo with xyz compiler - link it to Debian's packaged libbar - compile and link a program that uses libfoo and libbar with uvw compiler - expected result: linking the program warns that libbar's version of Bar returns a std::string but libfoo expects a std::__cxx11::string - actual result: (paste a typical linker error) - the expected warning can be achieved by configuring xyz compiler with -Wabi-tag (but I'm probably getting the sequence of events totally wrong so please specify what is actually going on) S