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| author | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2014-04-24 17:43:22 +0200 |
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| committer | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2014-04-25 12:19:37 +0200 |
| commit | 74fc254c2b4b2fd8392a246fc3b1520ca88da4fd (patch) | |
| tree | 431fac88e881baf76beb4a338247a9ac95b26c77 /contrib/devtools/README.md | |
| parent | 4765b8c11679aeb76efd9ce907a5c17661d4b018 (diff) | |
devtools: add script to check symbols from Linux gitian executables
Add a script to check that the (Linux) executables produced by gitian
only contain allowed gcc, glibc and libstdc++ version symbols. This
makes sure they are still compatible with the minimum supported Linux
distribution versions.
Diffstat (limited to 'contrib/devtools/README.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | contrib/devtools/README.md | 28 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/devtools/README.md b/contrib/devtools/README.md index f0d25fd7a2..697a714a47 100644 --- a/contrib/devtools/README.md +++ b/contrib/devtools/README.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Contents This directory contains tools for developers working on this repository. github-merge.sh ----------------- +================== A small script to automate merging pull-requests securely and sign them with GPG. @@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ Configuring the github-merge tool for the bitcoin repository is done in the foll git config githubmerge.testcmd "make -j4 check" (adapt to whatever you want to use for testing) git config --global user.signingkey mykeyid (if you want to GPG sign) -## fix-copyright-headers.py +fix-copyright-headers.py +=========================== Every year newly updated files need to have its copyright headers updated to reflect the current year. If you run this script from src/ it will automatically update the year on the copyright header for all @@ -46,4 +47,25 @@ For example a file changed in 2014 (with 2014 being the current year): ```// Copyright (c) 2009-2013 The Bitcoin developers``` would be changed to: -```// Copyright (c) 2009-2014 The Bitcoin developers```
\ No newline at end of file +```// Copyright (c) 2009-2014 The Bitcoin developers``` + +symbol-check.py +================== + +A script to check that the (Linux) executables produced by gitian only contain +allowed gcc, glibc and libstdc++ version symbols. This makes sure they are +still compatible with the minimum supported Linux distribution versions. + +Example usage after a gitian build: + + find ../gitian-builder/build -type f -executable | xargs python contrib/devtools/symbol-check.py + +If only supported symbols are used the return value will be 0 and the output will be empty. + +If there are 'unsupported' symbols, the return value will be 1 a list like this will be printed: + + .../64/test_bitcoin: symbol memcpy from unsupported version GLIBC_2.14 + .../64/test_bitcoin: symbol __fdelt_chk from unsupported version GLIBC_2.15 + .../64/test_bitcoin: symbol std::out_of_range::~out_of_range() from unsupported version GLIBCXX_3.4.15 + .../64/test_bitcoin: symbol _ZNSt8__detail15_List_nod from unsupported version GLIBCXX_3.4.15 + |