[PATCH] buildtools: prepare symbol check for Windows

[David Marchand]

On Thu, 25 Sept 2025 at 15:05, David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> The symbol check was implemented so far with shell scripts, relying
> on objdump and other unix tools preventing it from being run on Windows.
>
> There was also an ask from some maintainers to convert this type of
> developer checks to python scripts, to make it easier to extend and
> maintain.
>
> The new implementation still performs the four consistency checks:
> - symbols exported as experimental but missing __rte_experimental flag,
> - symbols flagged as experimental but missing export declaration,
> - symbols exported as internal but missing __rte_internal flag,
> - symbols flagged as internal but missing export declaration,
>
> The initial implementation was done relying on Claude Code
> (asking it to reimplement the existing check after it analysed
> the current build flow).
>
> I then cleaned up the python script, removed dumb comments, fixed coding
> style, fixed MAINTAINERS, fixed some dumb issues (like definition order in
> buildtools/meson.build).

Looks like trusting Claude on the python subtleties was not a good idea.
A v2 will be needed, but this change can wait to have a real user.
I'll mark as changes requested in patchwork.


-- 
David Marchand