Compiling root v6.12.04 on CentOS 6.6 using gcc v4.9.2 and cmake v3.10.2

I believe this is the real problem:

– Performing Test GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI
– Performing Test GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI - Failed

The failure about string_view is because it is from C++17, but you are compiling with C++11.

The real issue is the ABI incompatibility between the C++ standard library from your system and GCC 4.9.2.
You may find this page useful: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/using_dual_abi.html

If you choose an old ABI explicitly, you may be able to make things work (i.e. by adding -fabi-version=6 or other number to your compilation flags), or you could use, for instance, a compiler installed from the devtoolset-6: https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/devtoolset-6.