Re: [PATCH] devtools: fix symbols check

[Liang Ma <liangma@liangbit.com>]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 11:05:49PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 08/03/2022 22:27, Liang Ma:
> > On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 10:18:59PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > In some environments, the check of local symbols catch-all
> > > was failing. Note: this script is called during the build.
> > > 
> > > The reason is that grep returns an error if nothing is found.
> > > The option -e of the shell script makes this error fatal.
> > > It is not always fatal because the grep is in a command substitution.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: b403498e1422 ("build: hide local symbols in shared libraries")
> > > 
> > > Reported-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@bytedance.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> > > ---
> > >  devtools/check-symbol-maps.sh | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/devtools/check-symbol-maps.sh b/devtools/check-symbol-maps.sh
> > > index 8266fdf9ea..32e1fa5c8f 100755
> > > --- a/devtools/check-symbol-maps.sh
> > > +++ b/devtools/check-symbol-maps.sh
> > > @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ if [ -n "$duplicate_symbols" ] ; then
> > >      ret=1
> > >  fi
> > >  
> > > -local_miss_maps=$(grep -L 'local: \*;' $@)
> > > +local_miss_maps=$(grep -L 'local: \*;' $@ || true)
> > reviewed-by Liang Ma <liangma@liangbit.com> 
> > 
> > I'm curious to know how can the CI passed with original patch..... 
> 
> You are suggesting I did not check the CI.
> 
> The Intel check failed because of an apply issue,
> so I was not able to see the compilation result:
> http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/test-report/2022-March/267685.html
> 
> Later in the day, the UNH CI failed for the good reason
> but it was too late, the patch was applied:
> http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/test-report/2022-March/267723.html
> 
> That's what happens when I want to introduce a little additional check
> at the last minute before a release candidate.
No worry, I thought the CI has a bug.
> 
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