Re: glibmm build issues with gcc 4.8

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

On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 08:34:05PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> So, with no other comments:
> 
>  I propose to adjust glibmm to have GCC_REQD as 4.9 instead of 4.8.
> 
> on/after 1700Z on 12/28.
> 
> This is icky, because it does mean programs that build with 4.8 may
> link against glibmm which built with 4.9.
> 
> However, it seems that 4.8 and 4.9 are pretty much ABI compatible (even
> though in general this is unsound), we don't have a general solution on
> this branch, and firefox does this too.

Firefox is a leaf package for most common uses. This is not. If the main
program is picking up libstdc++ from base first, glibmm will be using
the old version and simply fail when hitting the regex code.

Joerg