From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19037 invoked by alias); 26 Dec 2002 17:32:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-hacker-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-hacker-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 19021 invoked from network); 26 Dec 2002 17:32:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Cantor.suse.de) (213.95.15.193) by 209.249.29.67 with SMTP; 26 Dec 2002 17:32:02 -0000 Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Hermes.suse.de [213.95.15.136]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 945A31471E; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 18:31:50 +0100 (MET) Received: from aj by arthur.inka.de with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 18RbPx-0005tB-00; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 18:03:33 +0100 Mail-Copies-To: never To: Roland McGrath Cc: GNU libc hackers Subject: Re: glibc ABI symbol list checking References: <200212231139.gBNBdl118788@magilla.sf.frob.com> From: Andreas Jaeger Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 09:32:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <200212231139.gBNBdl118788@magilla.sf.frob.com> (Roland McGrath's message of "Mon, 23 Dec 2002 03:39:47 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) XEmacs/21.4 (Artificial Intelligence, i386-suse-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00049.txt.bz2 Roland McGrath writes: > [...] Hi Roland, this is really a good idea! > I have put in the scripts and makefile hacks to do this, but not yet > committed the initial reference .abilist files. I have collected symbols But the makefile hacks seems not to be complete, I get (both with check-abi and update-abi) a failure in the locale directory: make[2]: Entering directory `/cvs/libc/locale' make[2]: *** No rule to make target `update-abi-libBrokenLocale', needed by `update-abi'. Stop. > for a couple of platforms and will get some more. (You can just touch empty > subdir/libfoo.abilist files in your source directory to get started--then > "make check-abi" will fail with a huge diff for each library.) Once there > are files in place, you can use make update-abi to merge in the symbol list > for your platform. When we have most of the platforms in the canonical lists, > I will enable the check-abi step as part of "make check" so that it's that > much harder for changes to slip in unplanned. For which platforms will you do the lists yourself - and for which do you need help? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger SuSE Labs aj@suse.de private aj@arthur.inka.de http://www.suse.de/~aj