Re: Selecting a C++ compiler

[Edgar Fuß <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

>   1) Is the C ABI/runtime stable enough that we can reasonably build C
>   programs with the base system gcc, and use something else for C++?  Or
>   do we have to move to one version always?  Consider things like geos
>   which are implemented in C++ but provide C libraries.
If that's not the case, we can't use any library from base within a package 
using C++, since it's certainly compiled with the base compiler, no?