On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote: > [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. > ...
Maybe fast uptake of the patches discussed here would be most helpful: http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=23529#c61. Jeff