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Re: [PATCH] Add new script add-abilist.py
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>, Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 11:24:21 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new script add-abilist.py
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On 03/05/2015 11:06 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> I'm arguing Florian's script is 50% of a solution. I've had to update
> the abi files and it's annoying. Similarly Florian probably has also.
>
> You really want:
>
> (a) `make all-update-abi` to propagate `make update-abi` changes to all
> machine abis.
Can we change the format of the abi-list file so that it is a list of
rows, with space-separated columns
<version> <symbol> <flags/size>
? Then I can write the diffing and merging logic just with sort and
comm. With the current format, I'd have to write another Python script
(or learn awk).
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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security