[gdb/build] Add CXX_DIALECT to CXX

Say we use a gcc version that (while supporting c++11) does not support c++11
by default, and needs an -std setting to enable it.

If gdb would use the default AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX from autoconf-archive, then
we'd have:
...
CXX="g++ -std=gnu++11"
...

That mechanism however has the following problem (quoting from commit
0bcda685399):
...
the top level Makefile passes CXX down to subdirs, and that overrides whatever
gdb/Makefile may set CXX to.  The result would be that a make invocation from
the build/gdb/ directory would use "g++ -std=gnu++11" as expected, while a
make invocation at the top level would not.
...

Commit 0bcda685399 fixes this by using a custom AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX which
does:
...
CXX=g++
CXX_DIALECT=-std=gnu++11
...

The problem reported in PR28318 is that using the custom instead of the
default AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX makes the configure test for std::thread
support fail.

We could simply add $CXX_DIALECT to the test for std::thread support, but
that would have to be repeated for each added c++ support test.

Instead, fix this by doing:
...
CXX="g++ -std=gnu++11"
CXX_DIALECT=-std=gnu++11
...

This is somewhat awkward, since it results in -std=gnu++11 occuring twice in
some situations:
...
$ touch src/gdb/dwarf2/read.c
$ ( cd build/gdb; make V=1 dwarf2/read.o )
g++-4.8 -std=gnu++11 -x c++ -std=gnu++11 ...
...

However, both settings are needed:
 - the switch in CXX for the std::thread tests (and other tests)
 - the switch in CXX_DIALECT so it can be appended in Makefiles, to
   counteract the fact that the top-level Makefile overrides CXX

The code added in gdb/ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx.m4 is copied from the default
AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX from autoconf-archive.

Tested on x86_64-linux.

Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28318

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gdb/configure b/gdb/configure
index 7c8335f..1876cbf 100755
--- a/gdb/configure
+++ b/gdb/configure
@@ -5846,6 +5846,10 @@ eval ac_res=\$$cachevar
 $as_echo "$ac_res" >&6; }
       if eval test x\$$cachevar = xyes; then
         CXX_DIALECT="$switch"
+        CXX="$CXX $switch"
+        if test -n "$CXXCPP" ; then
+          CXXCPP="$CXXCPP $switch"
+        fi
         ac_success=yes
         break
       fi
@@ -6165,6 +6169,10 @@ eval ac_res=\$$cachevar
 $as_echo "$ac_res" >&6; }
         if eval test x\$$cachevar = xyes; then
           CXX_DIALECT="$switch"
+          CXX="$CXX $switch"
+          if test -n "$CXXCPP" ; then
+            CXXCPP="$CXXCPP $switch"
+          fi
           ac_success=yes
           break
         fi