This patchset allows developers to check ABI breakages during build time. Currently checking that the DPDK ABI has not changed before up-streaming code is not intuitive. The current method, requires the contributor to use either the test-build.sh and test-meson-build.sh tools, along side some environmental variables to test their changes. Contributors in many cases are either unaware or unable to do this themselves, leading to a potentially serious situation where they are unknowingly up-streaming code that breaks the ABI. These breakages are then caught by Travis, but it is more efficient if this is caught locally before up-streaming.
--- v2: Spelling mistake, corrected spelling of environmental Conor Walsh (4): devtools: bug fix for gen-abi.sh devtools: add generation of compressed abi dump archives buildtools: add script to setup abi checks for meson build: add abi breakage checks to meson buildtools/abi-setup.py | 104 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ buildtools/meson.build | 20 ++++++ config/meson.build | 9 +++ devtools/gen-abi-tarball.py | 125 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ devtools/gen-abi.sh | 6 +- drivers/meson.build | 15 +++++ lib/meson.build | 15 +++++ meson_options.txt | 2 + 8 files changed, 291 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) create mode 100755 buildtools/abi-setup.py create mode 100755 devtools/gen-abi-tarball.py -- 2.25.1
