Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] devtools: skip experimental libraries in ABI check

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 2/21/2020 4:10 PM, David Marchand wrote:
> We don't provide ABI compatibility for experimental libraries.
> Skip those libraries by catching a soname containing a version starting
> with '0.'.

I am not familiar with the script and how libabigail works, but +1 to the idea.

> 
> Align the special case for the glue libraries by using the soname too.
> Once libabigail has support for it, we will have a single type of rule.
> 
> Fixes: 777014e56d07 ("devtools: add ABI checks")
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
> ---
>  devtools/check-abi.sh | 9 +++++++--
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/devtools/check-abi.sh b/devtools/check-abi.sh
> index 0b4d1a37e..dd9120e69 100755
> --- a/devtools/check-abi.sh
> +++ b/devtools/check-abi.sh
> @@ -40,8 +40,13 @@ for dump in $(find $refdir -name "*.dump"); do
>  	# skip glue drivers, example librte_pmd_mlx5_glue.dump
>  	# We can't rely on a suppression rule for now:
>  	# https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25480
> -	if [ "$name" != "${name%%_glue.dump}" ]; then
> -		echo "Skipping ${dump}..."
> +	if grep -qE "\<soname='[^']*_glue\.so\.[^']*'" $dump; then
> +		echo "Skipped glue library $name."
> +		continue
> +	fi
> +	# skip experimental libraries, with a sover starting with 0.
> +	if grep -qE "\<soname='[^']*\.so\.0\.[^']*'" $dump; then
> +		echo "Skipped experimental library $name."
>  		continue
>  	fi
>  	dump2=$(find $newdir -name $name)
>