[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] configure: don't force specific C++ standard library linking

[Kieran Kunhya]

On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 22:39, Kacper Michajlow <kasper93 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 15:12, Derek Buitenhuis
> <derek.buitenhuis at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 9/6/2023 6:31 PM, Kacper Michajlow wrote:
> > > What would be a downside of preferring CXX always if it exists?
> >
> > FFmpeg runs in a multitude of environments with a multitude of
> portability
> > requirements. Needlessly linking a C++ runtime is not OK.
>
> This does not answer my question. Let me rephrase. Do we know the case
> where using C++ compiler driver rather than C would degrade the
> quality of the resulting build?
>

The machine that ffmpeg is being compiled on is not necessarily the one
that ffmpeg is going to be run on.

Kieran