[Buildroot] The C++11 issue
Romain Naour
romain.naour at openwide.fr
Sat Mar 21 16:37:03 UTC 2015
Hi Thomas,
Le 21/03/2015 10:28, Thomas Petazzoni a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> A number of packages start to depend on C++11 features, which are not
> available in all toolchains: toolchains using old compiler versions
> (such as the Blackfin one), but also some older Crosstool-NG generated
> toolchains.
>
> This is causing a number of build failures these days, such as:
>
> bfin | jsoncpp-1.6.0 | NOK | http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/7fac9e4b3aa0746c860fd032a4b7b8663fb46fc8/
> bfin | jsoncpp-1.6.0 | NOK | http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/20b3f33e61286891a7804352c25326ea9faccfbb/
> bfin | jsoncpp-1.6.0 | NOK | http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/e482ba1d06c7fe2736ab3e79796297db8fbea187/
> arm | jsoncpp-1.6.0 | NOK | http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/1bf20d204042810bedad58dd2466bde9ae7b3fd6/
>
> (std::snprintf is a C++11 feature)
>
> So, it looks like we need to add a BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_CXX11 option, with
> the usual handling.
>
> However, it is not very clear-cut what is a C++11 supporting toolchain,
> and what is not: C++11 was added progressively in gcc, and there are
> still a few things missing apparently. According to
> https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx0x.html, most of the compiler related
> features have been merged by gcc 4.8. But in terms of libstdc++
> support, the page
> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/status.html#status.iso.200x
> is a lot less clear, as it only indicates the mainline gcc status, and
> not the gcc releases.
>
> So how do we decide whether a particular toolchain has C++11 support ?
> Do we simply decide that gcc >= 4.8 have sufficient C++11 support for
> now, and we'll adjust things later if needed ?
>
> What do you think ?
Some host packages start to require c++11 too, like host-thrift.
http://autobuild.buildroot.net/?reason=host-thrift-0.9.2
(similar issue with target's thrift)
http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/633/63340efff9adae966ec1d74ebc123d0437b75b63/build-end.log
In the case of host-thrift, the check for C++11 is horribly broken since there
is *sometime* some garbage in ax_cxx_compile_cxx11_required variable.
I can't reproduce the host-thrift issue on my Debian6 VM which use a gcc 4.4
because of that.
The custom m4 macro AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_11 used in configure.ac would stop the
build if no C++11 support is available:
AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_11([noext])
But if you look at the configure script generated by autoreconf,
ax_cxx_compile_cxx11_required is initialized with "truednl" !
ax_cxx_compile_cxx11_required=truednl
Then the build system fall back in C++11 optional requirement mode and finishes
the build...
All that to say that we might need also a check for C++11 for the host.
Otherwise, I like Arnout's proposal about BR2_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_X symbols.
Best regards,
Romain
>
> Thomas
>
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