[R-sig-Debian] Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak uses GCC 6 but -std=c++98 is missing

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 12 November 2016 at 07:59, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| 
| On 12 November 2016 at 14:23, Kirill Müller wrote:
| | Thanks. I have now CXX = g++ -std=c++98 in my /etc/R/Makeconf, it's 
| | picked up properly. I can only assume that the last -std= option wins if 
| | more than one are given on the same command line [1].
| 
| Good to know it works.
| 
| I am still a little puzzled why it was needed when it doesn't seem to be
| needed on the Debian side.

I just upgraded an old (unused, underpowered) box to 16.10 as a first
test. No issues so far, and basic cppFunction("...") tests with Rcpp work.

Could you get us a minimal reproducible example of what broke without the
explicit -std=c++98 ?

Dirk


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