Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Validating UAPI backwards compatibility

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Wed Mar 01 2023 - 18:34:07 EST


On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 2:33 PM John Moon <quic_johmoo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> With some additional help from Nick offline, we determined that the
> issue isn't with clang, but with libdw (from elfutils). You need at
> least libdw version 0.171 for the abidiff tool to work correctly with
> clang (in this particular case). Ubuntu 18.04 ships with version 0.170.
>
> If there's any interest, it'd be fairly easy to add a check for this
> condition under the check_deps() function in the script.

Good job John; mind sending a v3 with that addition, and the commit
message updated?
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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers