Re: ABI Compliance Checker GSoC Project

On Wed, 27 Aug 2025 at 22:44, David E. Wheeler <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>
wrote:
> > I plan to work on false positives by adding abidiff suppression files
per branch (possibly managed in a community repo). I’d love to hear ideas
on this.
> Also, what rules should be put in place to make a build “fail” based on
what has changed? Right now, I believe, the results are simply reported
without a pass/fail. Would a failure status be useful, given some level of
change?

I have updated the module to report a failure status whenever any ABI
change is detected without specific conditions. For example, the image
attached from my local server gave a failure status on the ABICompCheck
step when comparing REL_17_1 with the head commit of REL_17_STABLE, as ABI
changes were found.

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Also, I think we can also have a configuration option for animal owners to
toggle ABI change status on or off, thoughts?

Regards,
Mankirat