On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 08:43:38AM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 06:47:03AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > > First and foremost, while GCC 4.7 is the current > > minimum version supported, it's likely to become GCC 4.8 in the near > > future, because of some wanted C++11/C++14 features. > > That problem also bit us with chromium in wheezy. Introducing an updated > g++ isn't simple since libstdc++ is also built from the source package.
Note that Firefox /can/ build with GCC > 4.7 but still depend on libstdc++ from GCC 4.3, thanks to nasty tricks. https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/build/unix/stdc++compat/stdc++compat.cpp Mike
