On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 12:56 PM Neil Horman <nhor...@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 09:47:31AM +0100, David Marchand wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 4:27 PM Laatz, Kevin <kevin.la...@intel.com> wrote:
> > > > Build targets in project: 1019
> > > > WARNING: Project specifies a minimum meson_version '>= 0.47.1' but
> > > > uses features which were added in newer versions:
> > > >   * 0.48.0: {'console arg in custom_target'}
> > > >   * 0.50.0: {'install arg in configure_file'}
> > > > Found ninja-1.9.0 at /usr/bin/ninja
> > > > ninja -C /home/dmarchan/builds/build-gcc-static
> > > > ninja: Entering directory `/home/dmarchan/builds/build-gcc-static'
> > > > [48/2291] Generating librte_kvargs.abi_chk with a meson_exe.py custom 
> > > > command.
> > > > FAILED: lib/librte_kvargs.abi_chk
> > > > /usr/bin/meson --internal exe
> > > > /home/dmarchan/builds/build-gcc-static/meson-private/meson_exe_abidiff_6511538ddd95d9672028017110fa45c67f01f7be.dat
> > > > file /home/dmarchan/dpdk/lib/abi/librte_kvargs.dump does not exist
> > > > [77/2291] Compiling C object
> > > > 'lib/76b5a35@@rte_mbuf@sta/librte_mbuf_rte_mbuf.c.o'.
> > > > ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
> > >
> > > This is failing as the .dump files have not been created yet. They can
> > > be generated with devtools/gen-abi-dump.sh <build_dir>. This will
> > > generate a .dump file for each shared object in the builddir drivers and
> > > lib folders.
> >
> > Throwing an idea, I did not investigate.
> >
> > Could we refactor our tools/checks on the .map files to use the dump files?
> > We would then only maintain one file about symbols versioning.
> >
> Thats a chicken and egg problem.  The map file is the canonical source for
> versioning information. Any information that is encoded in the output of 
> objdump
> regarding versioning is sourced from the map files, so while you could use the
> objdump output to check versioning, you can't remove the need for map files to
> encode it.

Ah ah.. yes.
^U on this idea.


-- 
David Marchand

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