[PATCH] Add new script add-abilist.py

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 03/02/2015 04:02 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 03/02/2015 09:59 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
>>> It's very difficult to find. :-)  I haven't tried it, but I think it
>>> only patches the current abilist file, and not the other architectures.
>>
>> That's true.  It does an empirical update to the actual new reality, rather
>> than a specified updated to a putative new reality.
> 
> I think both approaches have their advantages, at least for function
> symbols.  Data symbols with their size information are more tricky.

The `make update-abi` method that Roland describes is part of the general
glibc `Release` documentation here and referenced from the `Release`
process followed by a release manager or machine maintainer during each
release:

https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Regeneration

I'm happy to have more utility scripts added to `scripts/`, but I would
also like to hear what use cases this is intended to help with and have
those documented in the `Regeneration` document so developers can learn
how to use it.

Cheers,
Carlos.