For what it's worth, setting it to 1 as opposed to 0 will make the package
incompatible with CentOS / RHEL 7 as the glibc they ship does not support
the new ABI.

-Keith

On Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 4:53 AM Philipp Moritz <pcmor...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah ok, that makes sense! I'm also not even sure if
> _GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0 was ever mandated on manylinux1, it might
> just be a community convention.
>
> I posted
>
> https://discuss.python.org/t/how-to-set-glibcxx-use-cxx11-abi-for-manylinux2014-and-manylinux2010-wheels/10551
> ,
> we can shift the discussion there.
>
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 1:45 AM Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > Le 10/09/2021 à 10:05, Philipp Moritz a écrit :
> > > Thanks for your answer Antoine!
> > >
> > > Considering your first comment, there is a section in
> > > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0571 under "Backwards
> compatibility
> > > with manylinux1 wheels" that states
> > > "manylinux1 wheels are considered manylinux2010 wheels" and the same
> > remark
> > > in https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0599/ for manylinux2014 about
> > > compatibility with both manylinux2010 and manylinux1.
> >
> > As far as I understand, this sentence is talking about system
> > compatibility: if you can use manylinux2010 wheels on a system, you can
> > also use manylinux1 wheels. That doesn't necessarily mean a manylinux1
> > wheel will nicely interoperate with a manylinux2010 wheel that would
> > expose the same symbols.
> >
> > It seems wheel-to-wheel interoperability is a grey area of the manylinux
> > specs.  To their credit, though, the issues with C++ symbol / ABI
> > conflicts are pretty abstruse and almost impossible to predict.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Antoine.
> >
>

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