Github user ottobackwards commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/849#discussion_r153322627
--- Diff: metron-deployment/scripts/platform-info.sh ---
@@ -73,6 +73,30 @@ echo "--"
echo "npm"
npm --version
+# C++ compiler
+echo "--"
+echo "g++"
+g++ --version
+
+# C++11 compliant compiler
+echo "--"
+OBJFILE=/tmp/test
+CPPFILE=/tmp/test.cpp
+cat > $CPPFILE <<- EOM
+#include <iostream>
+using namespace std;
+int main() {
+ cout << "Hello World!" << endl;
+ return 0;
+}
+EOM
+g++ -std=c++11 $CPPFILE -o $OBJFILE
+if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+ echo "Compiler is C++11 compliant"
+else
+ echo "Warning: Compiler is NOT C++11 compliant"
+fi
+rm -f $CPPFILE $OBJFILE
--- End diff --
A standard way in the language is to check for the value of __cplusplus
201402L is CPP 14
201103L is CPP 11
I don't have a preference, just throwing this out there.
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