title: Is it safe to package C++11 software on current Linux distributions?
body: <p>As a downstream maintainer in a Linux distribution, some of the packages that I usually maintain are starting to use the C++11 features in their code base. All of them depend on different libraries packaged by the Linux distributions.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Cxx11AbiCompatibility">Problems with the ABI</a> could appear when mixing C++11 code with C++98 and AFAIK, most of the current major Linux Distributions are not enabling the C++11 flag by default when compiling software to generate packages.</p>
  
  <p><strong>The question is</strong>: How are the major Linux distributions handling the entry of C++11 code? Is there a decent way of checking or avoiding these problems with the ABI when using system libraries?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>