http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57740
--- Comment #8 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to roland from comment #7) > -static-libstdc++ is important > to avoid DSO dependencies specific to the GCC version, which varies across > installations in incompatible ways far more than libc/libpthread versions). No it does not. Or rather there have not been an ABI change in libstdc++ since 3.4. If you compile with the oldest distro you support, it should work across all distros just fine. Just C++11 support was not part of most older distros because they came out before 2011 :).