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.