[cfe-users] Enable C++11 flag by default in clang?

[Csaba Raduly]

Hi Matthias,


On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Matthias Maier  wrote:
>
> Am 11. Jul 2014, 03:49 schrieb Miguel Carvajal :
>
>> Hi, i'm trying to compile clang but before continue i want to know if
>> there is a way to turn on c++11 mode by default in the compiler.
>> I mean, turn the switch on so i don't have to type clang++ -std=c+11 every
>> time/
>
> Unfortunately, clang doesn't support a spec-file mechanism like gcc
> yet (at least it didn't when I checked). So the easiest way to achieve
> this is to use the alias mechanism of your shell:
>
> Depending on your shell add a line
>
>   alias clang++="clang++ -std=c++11"
>
> to ~/.bashrc (in case of bash) or ~/.zshrc (if it is zsh) or something
> else.

That might not work from make; by default SHELL=/bin/sh and not bash

You might be better off with a shell script, named e.g. clang++11,
placed somewhere in the PATH, containing:

exec clang++ -std=c++11 $*

Csaba
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