[Bug default/31535] New: abidb: make a --check mode for tracking undefined symbols

[Bug default/31535] New: abidb: make a --check mode for tracking undefined symbols

[fche at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31535

            Bug ID: 31535
           Summary: abidb: make a --check mode for tracking undefined
                    symbols
           Product: libabigail
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: default
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: fche at redhat dot com
                CC: libabigail at sourceware dot org
  Target Milestone: ---

abidb in --check mode runs a loop of abicompat invocations, between the target
binary and each possible implementation of each shared library it needs.  This
does not detect cases where an undefined symbol from the binary is resolved in
some but not all versions of the shared library pool.  That is, we don't track
whether all its undefined symbols are in fact resolved. This is especially bad
if a symbol is defined by some but not all versions of a shared library.

This may be assisted by abicompat -u and manually tracking defined symbols from
various combinations of the candidate shared libraries.  Maybe it could be
detected during --submit time (since other candidate solibs for a new one are
enumerable at that time).

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