Introducing abidiff (was Re: [Guielines Change] Changes to the packaging guidelines)

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 09:54:40 +0100, Dodji Seketeli wrote:

> Indeed.  And while we are in the "Shameless Plug" department, I'd like
> to mention the presence of a new tool called 'abidiff'.  You can learn
> about it at https://sourceware.org/libabigail/manual/abidiff.html.
> 
> It's a command line tool that compares the ABIs of two shared libraries
> by looking *only* at the binaries and their debug info.  Unlike
> abi-compliance-checker, it doesn't need to look at the associated header
> files.  It can also do things that abi-compliance-checker cannot do,
> like, *recursively* compare the types of the exported functions and
> variables of the binaries.

Sounds good. I'll certainly start evaluating it as a replacement for
"abicheck", which has been retired at Fedora some years ago.