LibCxxOnOlderSystems - and more software that is pushing for gcc

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Sun Sep 25 06:25:50 PDT 2016


On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Ken Cunningham <
ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> wrote:

> What is happening exactly on my MacPros running 10.11, I wonder? Software
> installed by macports on 10.11 is using clang++ (mostly) and g++
> (sometimes). clang++ is linking against libc++, and g++ is presumably
>  linking against libstdc++ as that is what it does -- yet there appear to
> be no visible issues...and these libraries find each other.


An additional complication is that it's not using the same libstdc++: it's
using the GPL3 one with C++11 support, not Apple's GPL2/pre-C++11 one. So
potentially the clash here is between the two libstdc++ versions, not
libstdc++ and libc++.

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