From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9323 invoked by alias); 27 Dec 2002 20:34:05 -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 9306 invoked from network); 27 Dec 2002 20:34:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Cantor.suse.de) (213.95.15.193) by 209.249.29.67 with SMTP; 27 Dec 2002 20:34:04 -0000 Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Hermes.suse.de [213.95.15.136]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A329142CD; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 21:33:53 +0100 (MET) Received: from aj by arthur.inka.de with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 18S1B1-0007Wl-00; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 21:33:51 +0100 Mail-Copies-To: never To: Roland McGrath Cc: GNU libc hackers Subject: Re: glibc ABI symbol list checking References: <200212262214.gBQMEKs06802@magilla.sf.frob.com> From: Andreas Jaeger Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 12:34:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <200212262214.gBQMEKs06802@magilla.sf.frob.com> (Roland McGrath's message of "Thu, 26 Dec 2002 14:14:20 -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/msg00058.txt.bz2 Roland McGrath writes: >> Hi Roland, this is really a good idea! > > It's a start, but I don't want to let it make us complacent. It's far from > a complete solution. Something that keeps track of the type signatures > would make a bigger difference. > >> But the makefile hacks seems not to be complete, I get (both with >> check-abi and update-abi) a failure in the locale directory: > > Sorry if I wasn't clear about this. They won't work until some reference > files are installed, subdir/libfoo.abilist for each libfoo.so we build. > So start by touch locale/libBrokenLocale.abilist et al, and then check-abi > should show you diffs containing the whole .symlist with +s, and update-abi > will work. update-abi does work now for me but if I transfer e.g. the locale/libBrokenLocale.abilist file for i.86 which is: GLIBC_2.0 i.86-.*-linux.* GLIBC_2.0 A __ctype_get_mb_cur_max F to x86-64 and run update-abi this time as: $ make update-abi update-abi-config='x86_64-.*-linux.*' I get a new file: GLIBC_2.2.5 x86_64-.*-linux.* GLIBC_2.2.5 A __ctype_get_mb_cur_max F The config for i.86 is removed. How should those two get merged together correctly? > I had intended to get some initial reference lists in shortly after my > first posting, but I've been sick this week. Take your time - and get well again! Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger SuSE Labs aj@suse.de private aj@arthur.inka.de http://www.suse.de/~aj