Right now for ABI tests, the abidiff tool requires
a reference .so files matching the SPDK version that
is being compared to. For example patches on master
are compared to .so files build from last SPDK release.
This requires continuous maintenance and backports
to the prior release branches, to keep new VM images
buildable.
Since ABI tests should be done only against specific
release (git tags) rather than tip of the branches,
this would mean to address it properly the VM image
and point releases would need to be synchronized.
To avoid that, we can switch from using the .so files
to their text (XML) representation generated at the
time of the release.
The XML representation of the SO files will be kept in
the separate repository "spdk-abi" and cloning during
"confirm_abi_deps()" test.
Signed-off-by: Kamil Godzwon <kamilx.godzwon@intel.com>
Change-Id: I37b4c556e8f8ffb5ffd67e16df9f186ef9c52294
Reviewed-on: https://review.spdk.io/gerrit/c/spdk/spdk/+/14160
Tested-by: SPDK CI Jenkins <sys_sgci@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomasz Zawadzki <tomasz.zawadzki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Pawel Piatek <pawelx.piatek@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Sztyber <konrad.sztyber@intel.com>
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