On 10/03/2015 04:13 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > Title: GCC 5 Defaults to the New C++11 ABI > Author: Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain > Posted: 2015-10-02 > Revision: 1 > News-Item-Format: 1.0 > Display-If-Installed: >=sys-devel/gcc-5 > > GCC 5 uses the new C++ ABI by default. When building new code, you might run > into link time errors like: > ...: undefined reference to '_ZNSt6chrono12steady_clock3nowEv@GLIBCXX_3.4.17' > Or you might see linkage failures with "std::__cxx11::string" in the output. > > These are signs that you need to rebuild packages using the new C++ ABI. > You can quickly do so by using revdep-rebuild like so: > # revdep-rebuild --library 'libstdc\+\+\.so\.6' >
We shouldn't assume a particular PM/toolset in news items, IMO. Just saying that people might have to rebuild packages linked against libstdc++.so.6 should be enough. They can read the docs if they don't know how.
