On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Martin Vaeth <mar...@mvath.de> wrote: > Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On 20/10/14 06:58 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: >> >>> I don't think we'll ever want to support a mixed abi system. >> >> Can we, even? Would it be a mixed-abi system or a multi-abi system? > > I am afraid, we *have* to, in the moment when at least one program > adds -std=c++11 or -std=gnu++11 by itself (which AFAIK chromium does; > also eix does, if it can).
FYI, Chromium currently has a ban on using C++ 11 library features. I imagine that helps on a system/toolchain with C++ 98 libs. http://chromium-cpp.appspot.com/