Re: interoperability between boost libraries and gcc5 from pkgsrc

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 11:15:13AM -0600, Brook Milligan wrote:
> - How can I get pkgsrc to use gcc5 (or clang or any other specific
> compiler) throughout so that the libraries are compatible?  If I change
> anything to accomplish this, will I have to recompile all of pkgsrc?

You might want to look at USE_PKGSRC_GCC=yes. Note that GCC5+
effectively decided to screw the Itanium ABI with the introduction of
the ABI tag "feature" and that's why it is fundamentally not compatible
with older versions in the default settings...

Joerg