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sr #110879: revert forcing/setting -std=gnu++11 by default (introduced in Autoconf 2.70)

Submitter:  Jörn Heusipp <manx>
Submitted:  Sun 07 May 2023 07:26:46 AM UTC
 
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Sun 07 May 2023 07:28:33 AM UTC, comment #1: 
Jörn Heusipp <manx>
Sun 07 May 2023 07:26:46 AM UTC, original submission:  


> * Noteworthy changes in release 2.70 (2020-12-08) [stable]

[...]

> * AC_PROG_CC now enables C2011 mode if the compiler supports it.
>
>   If not, it will fall back to C99 and C89, as before.  Similarly,
>   AC_PROG_CXX now enables C++2011 if available, falling back on C++98.


This breaks existing packages that have been relying on `AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX` from the autoconf-archive package (<https://github.com/autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive/blob/master/m4/ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx.m4>) since about forever, because Autoconf itself did never care about the C++ standard version at all.

There appears to be no documentation on how to avoid the introduced behaviour, as far as I can see.

The new behaviour causes CXXFLAGS to look like '-std=gnu++11 -std=c++20', which is just confusing and arguably outright wrong.

In other cases, where the compiler default is actually newer than C++11 (e.g. GCC6 defaults to C++14, GCC11 defaults to C++17), it actively breaks compilation for programs that simply rely on the toolchain default.

See <https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/17284#pullrequestreview-1415834125>.

Please revert this change.

Jörn Heusipp <manx>

 

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