[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Remove abi_versioning.sh from tree

[Neil Horman]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 09:36:17AM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 9:34 PM Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> >
> > Since we've moved away from our initial abi_versioning.sh script, in
> 
> abi_versioning.sh does not exist (idem with the patch title).
> I suppose you meant validate-abi.sh.
> 
Crud, you're right, I was convoluting terms, sorry.  Shall I repost with a
corrected changelog?

Neil

> > favor of check_abi.sh, which uses libabigail, remove the old script from
> 
> check-abi.sh
> 
> > the tree, and update the docs accordingly
> >
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/abi_versioning.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/abi_versioning.rst
> > index a21f4e7a4..1c4a3f927 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/contributing/abi_versioning.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/contributing/abi_versioning.rst
> > @@ -482,9 +482,9 @@ Running the ABI Validator
> >  -------------------------
> >
> >  The ``devtools`` directory in the DPDK source tree contains a utility program,
> > -``validate-abi.sh``, for validating the DPDK ABI based on the Linux `ABI
> > -Compliance Checker
> > -<http://ispras.linuxbase.org/index.php/ABI_compliance_checker>`_.
> > +``check-abi.sh``, for validating the DPDK ABI based on the libabigail abidiff
> > +utility:
> > +https://sourceware.org/libabigail/manual/abidiff.html
> >
> >  This has a dependency on the ``abi-compliance-checker`` and ``and abi-dumper``
> >  utilities which can be installed via a package manager. For example::
> > @@ -492,9 +492,9 @@ utilities which can be installed via a package manager. For example::
> >     sudo yum install abi-compliance-checker
> >     sudo yum install abi-dumper
> >
> > -The syntax of the ``validate-abi.sh`` utility is::
> > +The syntax of the ``check-abi.sh`` utility is::
> >
> > -   ./devtools/validate-abi.sh <REV1> <REV2>
> > +   ./devtools/check-abi.sh <REV1> <REV2>
> 
> The new script is not a direct replacement.
> It won't take git revisions, but build directories where versions of
> dpdk have been compiled.
> 
> devtools/test-build.sh and devtools/test-meson-builds.sh illustrate its use.
> https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tree/devtools/test-meson-builds.sh#n127
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> David Marchand
> 
>