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| author | Daiki Ueno <dueno@redhat.com> | 2020-03-16 17:16:08 +0100 |
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| committer | Daiki Ueno <ueno@gnu.org> | 2020-05-30 12:34:57 +0200 |
| commit | e3bb315530455462a6d78b954b452f2a7ae09e09 (patch) | |
| tree | 703c285df864f40a87f6250906a6fe773cb023d1 /CONTRIBUTING.md | |
| parent | 6df0dab742b4ee5bd3fa55680657326305bde8cc (diff) | |
| download | gnutls-e3bb315530455462a6d78b954b452f2a7ae09e09.tar.gz | |
devel: provide external git diff driver for *.abi files [ci skip]tmp-abi-check
This adds an external diff driver for *.abi files, that shows only
interesting changes in those files. This would be useful when adding
a new API.
Signed-off-by: Daiki Ueno <dueno@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'CONTRIBUTING.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | CONTRIBUTING.md | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 96fb7ff0cc..b3bf9b6b5b 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ As such, some questions to answer before adding a new API: The make rule 'abi-check' verifies that the ABI remained compatible since -the last tagged release. It relies on the git tree and abi-compliance-checker. +the last tagged release. It relies on the git tree and libabigail. The above do not apply to the C++ library; this library's ABI should not be considered stable. @@ -403,6 +403,12 @@ or adding new command line options to tools you need to run 'make files-update', review the output (when feasible) and commit it separately, e.g., with a message: "auto-generated files update". + The 'files-update' rule also regenerates the ABI dump files (.abi), used by +the 'abi-check' rule to ensure library ABI compatibility. To make it easier +to track actual changes to be made in those files, a git external diff +driver is provided as `devel/git-abidiff-gnutls`. See the comment in the +file for the instruction. + # Guile bindings: |