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.
--- v4: - Reworked both Python scripts to use more native Python functions and modules. - Python scripts are now in line with how other Python scripts in DPDK are structured. v3: - Fix for bug which now allows meson < 0.48.0 to be used - Various coding style changes throughout - Minor bug fixes to the various meson.build files 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 | 141 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ buildtools/meson.build | 18 +++++ config/meson.build | 15 ++++ devtools/gen-abi-tarball.py | 142 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ devtools/gen-abi.sh | 6 +- drivers/meson.build | 14 ++++ lib/meson.build | 14 ++++ meson_options.txt | 2 + 8 files changed, 347 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) create mode 100755 buildtools/abi-setup.py create mode 100755 devtools/gen-abi-tarball.py -- 2.25.1
