[arch-general] ABI compliance checker

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

Roman Kyrylych wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 01:16, Gerardo Exequiel
> Pozzi<vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
>   
>> Andrey Ponomarenko wrote:
>>     
>>>     Colleagues, I'm software engineer from Institute for System
>>> Programing of Russian Academy of Sciences and we are developing a free
>>> lightweight tool for checking backward/forward binary compatibility of
>>> shared C/C++ libraries in OS Linux. It checks interface signatures and
>>> data type definitions in two library versions (headers and shared
>>> objects) and searches ABI changes that may lead to incompatibility.
>>> We have released 1.1 version of this tool and we'd like you to consider
>>> its usefulness for your project.
>>>     The wiki-page with the latest release of binary compatibility checker is
>>> http://ispras.linux-foundation.org/index.php/ABI_compliance_checker
>>>       
>> This sound really very good!
>> At first when I read your post, I thought it was possible to verify the
>> compatibility without source, ie directly between the binaries, but I
>> see that this is not possible. This only do the check based on the
>> source plus some xml library descriptors.
>>     
>
> The requirement of special XML files limits its usage IMHO.
> Do you have any descriptors already available for some libraries?
>
>   

No, I played with the program after reading the documentation and do not
serve to me what I wanted: check binary compatible with the information
that can be drawn from the ELF and only that.

I think that as said the documentation is more focused for developers
(specially for lib devs), not for packagers ;)

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