glibc ABI symbol list checking

[Andreas Jaeger]

Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> writes:

> [...]

Hi Roland, this is really a good idea!

> I have put in the scripts and makefile hacks to do this, but not yet
> committed the initial reference .abilist files.  I have collected symbols

But the makefile hacks seems not to be complete, I get (both with
check-abi and update-abi) a failure in the locale directory: 

make[2]: Entering directory `/cvs/libc/locale'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `update-abi-libBrokenLocale', needed by `update-abi'.  Stop.

> for a couple of platforms and will get some more.  (You can just touch empty
> subdir/libfoo.abilist files in your source directory to get started--then
> "make check-abi" will fail with a huge diff for each library.)  Once there
> are files in place, you can use make update-abi to merge in the symbol list
> for your platform.  When we have most of the platforms in the canonical lists,
> I will enable the check-abi step as part of "make check" so that it's that
> much harder for changes to slip in unplanned.

For which platforms will you do the lists yourself - and for which do
you need help?

Andreas
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