Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ci: build and use libabigail 1.6

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

17/02/2020 14:59, David Marchand:
> libabigail 1.2 (at least) reports changes in 'const' property as an ABI
> breakage [1].
> This was fixed upstream in libabigail 1.4 [2], and a bug has been opened
> in launchpad [3].
> 
> But for now, build and use the last version 1.6 so that the ABI checks
> can be kept.
> 
> 1: https://travis-ci.com/DPDK/dpdk/jobs/287872118#L2242
> 2: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libabigail.git;a=commitdiff;h=215b7eb4fe8b986fe1cc87d9d8e7412998038392
> 3: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libabigail/+bug/1863607
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
> ---
> +    LIBABIGAIL_REPO=${LIBABIGAIL_REPO:-https://sourceware.org/git/libabigail.git}
> +    LIBABIGAIL_VERSION=${LIBABIGAIL_VERSION:-libabigail-1.6}
> +
> +    if [ "$(cat libabigail/VERSION 2>/dev/null)" != "$LIBABIGAIL_VERSION" ]; then
> +        rm -rf libabigail
> +        # if we change libabigail, invalidate existing abi cache
> +        rm -rf reference
> +    fi
> +
> +    if [ ! -d libabigail ]; then
> +        git clone --single-branch -b $LIBABIGAIL_VERSION $LIBABIGAIL_REPO libabigail/src
> +        cd libabigail/src && autoconf -vfi && cd -
> +        mkdir libabigail/src/build
> +        cd libabigail/src/build && ../configure --prefix=$(pwd)/libabigail && cd -
> +        make -C libabigail/src/build all install
> +
> +        rm -rf libabigail/src
> +        echo $LIBABIGAIL_VERSION > libabigail/VERSION
> +    fi

Can we avoid compiling libabigail ourself?
Is there an up-to-date Ubuntu package somewhere?