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

[Kieran Kunhya]

On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 19:42, Kacper Michajlow <kasper93 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 00:11, Kieran Kunhya <kierank at obe.tv> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Not sure how this is relevant to the discussion?
>

> > > > What would be a downside of preferring CXX always if it exists?

Because it forces a dependency on libstdc++ even if another machine does
not have it.

Kieran