ABI navigator for libdrm

Eric Engestrom eric.engestrom at imgtec.com
Mon Feb 27 13:56:12 UTC 2017


On Sunday, 2017-02-26 12:51:03 +0300, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to present the ABI Navigator project to search for binary symbols (functions, global data, etc.) across recent versions of the libdrm and other open-source libraries: https://abi-laboratory.pro/index.php?view=navigator
> 
> The project allows to find out in which versions of the library some symbol is defined, added, removed or changed. The data is taken from the ABI Tracker report for the library: https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/libdrm/
> 
> Example for symbol drmGetDevice from libdrm.so: https://abi-laboratory.pro/index.php?view=navigator&selected=drmGetDevice

Thanks!
Any chance of getting a (json) api for this?

It'd be kinda nice to build a tool that can just parse a file and
spit out the minimum required version of each lib used in there.
Having an easy way to query when each symbol was introduced & last
changed would really help with that.

Cheers,
  Eric

> 
> The project aims to help library users and maintainers to resolve issues with missed symbols and navigate through the reports in the ABI Tracker.
> 
> Have you ever encountered the "undefined reference" error or want to know whether the symbol is _stable_ enough to import by your code? Try to find it in the ABI Navigator!
> 
> Enjoy!


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