1. list the symbols exported by your library (current package) 2. list the symbols exported by your library (new package) 3. compare the symbols and check for ABI breakage
It could be automated and OBS could provide it (see Anas's postchecks repository). Cheers, Fathi ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of ext Alberto Mardegan [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 4:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [meego-packaging] Send notifications if ABI/API changes On 12/17/2010 03:54 PM, Zhu, Peter J wrote: > So, once a package update/upgrade involves a ABI changes, before submitting > to T:T, please send an notification to meego-dev and meego-packaging and let > release engineers know with detailed information of > * what has changed, > * what are required to do in upper stack to work with the ABI changes Is there some tool you'd recommend to check for ABI incompatibilities? AFAIK, OBS doesn't provide such functionality. Ciao, Alberto -- http://blog.mardy.it <-- geek in un lingua international! _______________________________________________ MeeGo-packaging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-packaging _______________________________________________ MeeGo-packaging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-packaging
