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Obviously we are not the first to encounter this problem.

My understanding is that std::unique_ptr is intended as a "drop in replacement" for std::auto_ptr (provided that the latter has been used cleanly).

I would strongly prefer a solution which does not use #define.

I'm not sure if typedef can be used easily with templated types.
If so, we could just use a typedef for CoCoA::UniquePtr to refer
to either std::auto_ptr or std::unique_ptr. This could be done
inside config.H perhaps?

A quick check we should do is to string-replace all auto_ptr with unique_ptr and see if the code compiles cleanly (in --std=c++11 mode).

Here are the files which use std::auto_ptr:
GlobalManager.H
MemPool.H
SparsePolyRing.H
SugarDegree.H
TmpJBMill.H
TmpPBMill.H
TmpUniversalInvolutiveBasisContainer.H

FractionField.C
FreeModule.C
MemPool.C
PPMonoidEv.C
PPMonoidEvOv.C
PPMonoidOv.C
PPmonoidSparse.C
QuotientRing.C
RingDenseUPolyClean.C
RingDistrMPolyClean.C
RingDistrMPolyInFpPP.C
RingDistrMPolyInlPP.C
RingFp.C
RingFpDouble.C
RingFpLog.C
RingFqLog.C
RingFpVec.C
RingQQ.C
RingTwinFloat.C
RingWeyl.C
RingZZ.C
SugarDegree.C
TmpHilbert.C
TmpJBMill.C
TmpPBMill.C
TmpToric.C ???
TmpUniversalInvolutiveBasisContainer.C

Also in src/server/ the following files:
CoCoAServer.C
GlobalIO.C
RegisterServerOps.C
RegisterServerOpsFrobby.C
RegisterServerOpsUser.C

Just a quick note about doing a global replacement of auto_ptr by unique_ptr. Open all files in emacs, then use M-x replace-regexp (rather than query-replace-regexp).

The replacement must be done for include/CoCoA/*.H, src/AlgebraicCore/*.C, src/server/*.C. That should be all.