On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler <f...@redhat.com> wrote: > jwakely.gcc wrote: > >> [...] (When we switched Fedora to using GCC 6, with C++14 enabled by >> default, dozens and dozens of C++ packages failed to compile, >> because even in 2016 nobody had ever tried to compile them with >> C++11 features enabled.) > > And one shouldn't blame those that choose to stick with CXXFLAGS=-std=c++98 > instead of porting their code, which after all is working & stable.
Absolutely, that's a fine solution. Though often it makes sense to put the -std argument in the CXX variable rather than CXXFLAGS. Jason
