On Qua, 2016-10-05 at 18:36 +0300, Ponomarenko Andrey wrote: > 05.10.2016, 15:13, "Josh Boyer": > > > > On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 8:05 AM, Ponomarenko Andrey wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'd like to present a new free tool for maintainers of software > > > libraries — Package ABI Diff Tool (Pkg-ABIdiff). It's a tool for > > > backward compatibility analysis of API/ABI interfaces in RPM > > > packages. It is based on ABICC and ABI Dumper tools. > > > > > > The tool does the following: > > > > > > 1. Extracts input packages > > > 2. Searches for *.debuginfo, *.so and header files > > > 3. Creates ABI dumps of all found shared objects > > > 4. Filters out private part of the ABI using info from > > > header files > > > 5. Matches shared objects in old and new packages > > > 6. Compares ABI dumps of corresponding objects > > > 7. Creates backward binary/source compatibility reports > > > > > > Home page: https://github.com/lvc/pkg-abidiff > > > > > > Usage: pkg-abidiff -old P1 P1-DEBUG P1-DEV -new P2 P2-DEBUG P2- > > > DEV > > > > > > P1 — RPM package to analyze (with *.so object files) > > > P1-DEBUG — corresponding debug-info package (*.debug files > > > with DWARF info) > > > P1-DEV — corresponding development package (with header files) > > > > > > Report example for libssh 0.6.3 vs 0.7.3: https://abi- > > > laboratory.pro/examples/compat_report/x86_64/libssh/0.6.3- > > > 3.fc21/0.7.3-1.fc24/abi-tracker > > Do you have a comparison between this and the libabigail based > > abi-check that is currently being used and enhanced in Fedora > > Infrastructure? > > > The tool is based on different software stack for analysis of > backward compatibility developed since 2009: https://github.com/lvc > (ABI Compliance Checker, ABI Dumper, etc.) > > RedHat created an alternative libabigail tool in 2013. Implementation > and reports are completely different. But anyway, two is better than > one. Now we can verify reports of both tools by each other. > > The ABI Compliance Checker/ABI Dumper tools are mostly used in > upstream currently (https://github.com/lvc/abi-tracker). The new pkg- > abidiff interface for Linux maintainers is an effort to simplify the > use of ABI Compliance Checker on RPM packages. BTW we also have rpmsodiff - compare library symbols in two rpm packages, in rpmdevtools, for me this tools is very simple and works well. Best regards, -- Sérgio M. B. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
