On Apr 10, 2018, at 13:55, Ken Cunningham wrote: > On 2018-04-10, at 11:47 AM, Rainer Müller wrote: >>> >>> I don't want to release 2.4.3 with the libstdc++ ABI issue unanswered. I >>> believe it will cause problems. >> >> Then we should revert this change for 2.4.3 and we have one more reason >> to go for a 2.4.4 release. >> >> Rainer > > > I would have like to set libgcc to ABI4 mode, at least on PPC, to fix this > forever, but Jeremy felt this was undesirable. Perhaps we might still > consider doing that, though, at least on PPC. > > Two other easy options: > > 1. add the required *ABI=0 flag by default to all cxx builds on PPC. This > would be completely fine I believe. More desirable.
And then after MacPorts 2.4.3 release, revbump any ports that were built with *ABI=1, and add to them an invocation of macports_version and vercmp to ensure they're being rebuilt by 2.4.3 or later. > 2. wait for builds to fail to link (they will, on 10.6 to 10.8 and PPC if the > linking doesn't work, as we have all seen) then add the cxx11 PortGroup as we > do now when we see this failure. Less desirable. Mixing libc++ and libstdc++ results in a link failure. Mixing old libstdc++ and new libstdc++ did not previously result in a link failure; it resulted in a runtime crash which was difficult to diagnose and attribute to this problem. That was back before gcc5. I don't know things have changed.
