Re: minimum requirements

Markus Wanner <[email protected]> writes:

> On 05/16/2014 07:12 PM, Markus Wanner wrote:
>> Stephen wants these (and supports them by occasional manual testing):
>>  * RHEL 6
>
> Minor update on the RHEL front: build animal armadillo (effectively
> running CentOS 6.5) now uses a g++ 4.8.2 from the devtools-2 package.
>
> With that, it now fails to compile nvm, because with the new compiler,
> C++11 gets enabled. But the old boost headers on that platform do not
> seem to cope well with C++11. So using C++11 with old-ish boost
> (armadillo uses boost 1.41) doesn't work.

I install boost headers from source, not from the RPM package. I forgot
that part.

> Note that the branch nvm.mandatory-cxx11 works just fine (as it doesn't
> use much of boost, anymore). So does disabling C++11 on nvm.

Ok.

> To me, that's yet another argument to mandate C++11: 

yes.

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