[Interest] How do you want to select exactly C++11 with GCC 6+?

[Sérgio Martins]

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Thiago Macieira
<thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> This is a straw poll to see if we should change qmake's behaviour for Qt 5.9.
>
> GCC 6 and ICC 17, in the absence of -std= comipler options, default ot C++14.
> So I have two questions:
>
> 1) is there a need for qmake to provide a way to select *exactly* C++11, not a
> later, available version?

I wouldn't worry much about it, aren't C++11 and C++14 ABI compatible ?
If there's some implementation where this is an issue then qmake
should provide an obscure way to workaround and not through CONFIG.

Regards,
Sérgio Martins