ABI-MONITOR(1)

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version 1.12 · 4 versions
, in ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

✨ ABI-MONITOR(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the user-commands corner of the manual, section 1, and the star of the show is abi-monitor 💖 this is literally where you learn how to monitor new versions of a software library and try to build them. no cap.

👑 NAME 👑

abi-monitor — monitor new versions of a software library and try to build them 🦋

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

🎀 NAME:

ABI Monitor (abi-monitor) — Monitor and build new versions of a C/C++ software library. it's giving tooling, it's giving main character energy 💅

💜 DESCRIPTION:

ABI Tracker is a tool to monitor new versions of a software library, try to build them and create profile for ABI Tracker. 🫶

The tool is intended to be used with the ABI Tracker tool for visualizing API/ABI changes timeline. the way that it just... maps your whole timeline 🙈✨

This tool is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU LGPL or GNU GPL. free software era, periodt. 🌈

⭐ USAGE:

abi-monitor [options] [profile]

🍓 EXAMPLES:

abi-monitor -get -build profile.json
literally just download + build in one lil line, iykyk 😭

💅 INFORMATION OPTIONS:

  • -h, -help — Print this help. that's it, that's the option 🎀
  • -dumpversion — Print the tool version (1.12) and don't do anything else. it said one job and it's doing exactly that. iconic. 👑

🔥 GENERAL OPTIONS:

  • -get — Download new library versions. fresh packages just dropped 🫶
  • -get-old — Download old packages from OldSourceUrl option of the profile. throwback era, we love her 💜
  • -build — Build library versions. make it compile bestie, you got this 🔨✨
  • -rebuild — Re-build library versions. round two, no hard feelings 💅
  • -limit NUM — Limit number of operations to NUM. This is useful if you want to download or build only NUM packages. pace yourself queen, we're not doing all 500 today 🙈
  • -v NUM — Build only one particular version. just the one. your fave. ⭐
  • -output PATH — Path to output profile. The tool will overwrite the input profile by default. ⚠️ overwrite — fr fr read that twice, she will consume your input profile if you don't redirect her 😭
  • -build-shared — Build shared objects from static ones if they cannot be build by the library makefile or build script. when the build script refuses to cooperate so you do it yourself 💅
  • -build-new — Build newly found packages only. This option should be used with -get option. bestie duo, they come as a set 🫶
  • -debug — Enable debug messages. for when you need the tool to overshare 💀

🦋 OTHER OPTIONS:

  • -make OPT — Add options to 'make' command (e.g. '-j4'). custom make flags, chef's kiss 👑

ABI Monitor 1.12 A tool to monitor new versions of a software library Copyright © 2017 Andrey Ponomarenko's ABI Laboratory License: GPL or LGPL

Usage: abi-monitor [options] [profile] Example:

abi-monitor -get -build profile.json

More info: abi-monitor --help

💖 AUTHOR 💖

This manual page was written by Peter Spiess-Knafl <dev@spiessknafl.at> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). shoutout to the author, absolute legend, thank you for your service 🫡🌸

and that's the whole page bestie ✨ it's abi-monitor, it's dated February 2020, and it's your girl forever. mwah 💋

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