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authorAndrey Ponomarenko <andrewponomarenko@yandex.ru>2016-01-28 15:06:08 +0300
committerAndrey Ponomarenko <andrewponomarenko@yandex.ru>2016-01-28 15:06:08 +0300
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downloadabi-compliance-checker-e3419b4a6666e1a56a0b3d34449f8bd0f73b11a9.tar.gz
Do not check private part of the ABI. Fixed counting of checked data types.
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@@ -71,18 +71,18 @@
<li><a href="#Supported_Platforms">Supported Platforms</a></li>
<li><a href="#Dependencies">Dependencies</a></li>
<li><a href="#Installation">Installation</a></li>
-<li><a href="#Usage">Usage</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Usage">Usage (Original)</a></li>
+<li><a href="#ABI_Dumper">Usage with ABI Dumper</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Tutorial">Tutorial</a></li>
<li><a href="#Examples">Examples</a></li>
<li><a href="#BinaryProblems">Detectable Binary-Compatibility Problems</a></li>
<li><a href="#SourceProblems">Detectable Source-Compatibility Problems</a></li>
<li><a href="#Dump">Create ABI Dumps</a></li>
-<li><a href="#ABI_Dumper">Usage with ABI Dumper</a></li>
<li><a href="#Report">Report Format</a></li>
<li><a href="#Verdict">Verdict on Compatibility</a></li>
<li><a href="#Error">Error Codes</a></li>
<li><a href="#FAQ">FAQ</a></li>
<li><a href="#Similar">Similar Tools</a></li>
-<li><a href="#Tutorial">Tutorial</a></li>
<li><a href="#Bugs">Bugs</a></li>
<li><a href="#Maintainers">Maintainers</a></li>
<li><a href="#ChangeLog">Changes</a></li>
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
<h2>Downloads</h2>
<p>All releases can be downloaded from <a href="https://github.com/lvc/abi-compliance-checker/">this page</a>.</p>
-<p>Latest release: <a href="https://github.com/lvc/abi-compliance-checker/archive/1.99.15.tar.gz">abi-compliance-checker-1.99.15.tar.gz</a></p>
+<p>Latest release: <a href="https://github.com/lvc/abi-compliance-checker/archive/1.99.16.tar.gz">abi-compliance-checker-1.99.16.tar.gz</a></p>
<p>Read-only access to the latest development version:</p>
@@ -140,9 +140,10 @@ On MS Windows the tool also requires MinGW, MS Visual C++ (dumpbin, undname, cl)
<p>This command will install the <code>abi-compliance-checker</code> program into the <code>PREFIX/bin</code> system directory and private modules into the <code>PREFIX/share</code>.</p>
<a name="Usage"></a>
-<h2>Usage</h2>
-
-For using the tool, you should provide the <a href='Xml-Descriptor.html'>XML descriptors</a> for two library versions: <code>v1.xml</code> and <code>v2.xml</code> files. Library descriptor is a simple XML-file that specifies version number, paths to header files and shared libraries and other optional information. An example of the descriptor is the following (<code>0.3.4.xml</code>):
+<h2>Usage (Original)</h2>
+The original usage is based on the analysis of header files and shared objects (without debug-info).
+<p/>
+You should provide <a href='Xml-Descriptor.html'>XML descriptors</a> for two library versions (<code>v1.xml</code> and <code>v2.xml</code> files) in order to run the analysis. Library descriptor is a simple XML-file that specifies version number, paths to header files and shared libraries and other optional information. An example of the descriptor is the following (<code>0.3.4.xml</code>):
<p/>
<div class='listing'>
<pre>
@@ -170,6 +171,33 @@ The compatibility report will be generated to:
<code class='code'>compat_reports/NAME/V1_to_V2/compat_report.html</code>
<p/>
+<a name="ABI_Dumper"></a>
+<h2>Usage with ABI Dumper</h2>
+This new way is based on the analysis of the debug-info from binary objects. It's more reliable, faster and simple way.
+<p/>
+The analyzed library should be compiled with "-g -Og" GCC options to contain DWARF debug info.
+<p/>
+Create ABI dumps for both library versions first using the <a href='https://github.com/lvc/abi-dumper'>ABI Dumper</a> tool:
+<p/>
+<code class='code'>abi-dumper OLD.so -o ABI-0.dump -lver 0</code>
+<p/>
+<code class='code'>abi-dumper NEW.so -o ABI-1.dump -lver 1</code>
+<p/>
+And then compare ABI dumps to create report:
+<p/>
+<code class='code'>abi-compliance-checker -l NAME -old ABI-0.dump -new ABI-1.dump</code>
+<p/>
+The compatibility report will be generated to:
+<p/>
+<code class='code'>compat_reports/NAME/V0_to_V1/compat_report.html</code>
+<p/>
+You can filter out private symbols from the ABI dumps by specifying of additional <code>-public-headers</code> option of the ABI Dumper tool.
+
+<a name="Tutorial"></a>
+<h2>Tutorial</h2>
+An excellent tutorial <a href='http://blog.famillecollet.com/post/2010/06/20/ABI-%3A-stability-check'>"ABI: stability check"</a> is available at Les RPM de Remi Blog. See also <a href='http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Testing/ABI_checker'>ABI compliance checker Notes</a> at glibc wiki.
+<p/>
+
<a name="Examples"></a>
<h2>Examples</h2>
<table class='summary'>
@@ -177,19 +205,21 @@ The compatibility report will be generated to:
<tr>
<td>NetCDF</td>
<td>4.0.1 to 4.1.1</td>
-<td><a href='http://upstream-tracker.org/compat_reports/netcdf/4.0.1_to_4.1.1/compat_report.html'>report</a></td>
+<td><a href='http://upstream.rosalinux.ru/compat_reports/netcdf/4.0.1_to_4.1.1/compat_report.html'>report</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MySQL++</td>
<td>3.0.9 to 3.1.0</td>
-<td><a href='http://upstream-tracker.org/compat_reports/mysql++/3.0.9_to_3.1.0/abi_compat_report.html'>report</a></td>
+<td><a href='http://upstream.rosalinux.ru/compat_reports/mysql++/3.0.9_to_3.1.0/abi_compat_report.html'>report</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>libssh</td>
<td>0.3.4 to 0.4.0</td>
-<td><a href='http://upstream-tracker.org/compat_reports/libssh/0.3.4_to_0.4.0/abi_compat_report.html'>report</a></td>
+<td><a href='http://upstream.rosalinux.ru/compat_reports/libssh/0.3.4_to_0.4.0/abi_compat_report.html'>report</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
+<p/>
+See more report examples at <a href='http://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/'>http://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/</a>.
<a name="BinaryProblems"></a>
<h2>Detectable Binary Compatibility Problems</h2>
@@ -458,19 +488,6 @@ To compare ABI dumps pass them as the descriptors:
<p/>
<code class='code'>abi-compliance-checker -lib NAME -old V1.abi.tar.gz -new V2.abi.tar.gz</code>
-<a name="ABI_Dumper"></a>
-<h2>Usage with ABI Dumper</h2>
-The analyzed library should be compiled with "-g -Og" GCC options to contain DWARF debug info.
-<p/>
-Create ABI dumps for both library versions using the <a href='https://github.com/lvc/abi-dumper'>ABI Dumper</a> tool:
-<p/>
-<code class='code'>abi-dumper OLD.so -o ABI-0.dump -lver 0</code>
-<p/>
-<code class='code'>abi-dumper NEW.so -o ABI-1.dump -lver 1</code>
-<p/>
-Compare ABI dumps:
-<code class='code'>abi-compliance-checker -l NAME -old ABI-0.dump -new ABI-1.dump</code>
-
<a name="Report"></a>
<h2>Report Format</h2>
The tool supports two formats of a compatibility report: HTML (default) and XML. To generate XML report you should specify <code>-xml</code> additional option.
@@ -570,11 +587,6 @@ If the tool detects problems with high or medium level of severity or at least o
</li>
</ul>
-<a name="Tutorial"></a>
-<h2>Tutorial</h2>
-An excellent tutorial <a href='http://blog.famillecollet.com/post/2010/06/20/ABI-%3A-stability-check'>"ABI: stability check"</a> is available at Les RPM de Remi Blog. See also <a href='http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Testing/ABI_checker'>ABI compliance checker Notes</a> at glibc wiki.
-<p/>
-
<a name="Bugs"></a>
<h2>Bugs</h2>
Please post bug reports, feature requests and questions to the <a href="https://github.com/lvc/abi-compliance-checker/issues">issue tracker</a>.