Roman Kyrylych wrote: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 01:16, Gerardo Exequiel > Pozzi<vmlinuz386@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 ;) -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D
