DH_ACC(1)

💅 DH_ACC — bestie edition 💅

okay so you're looking at the manual page for dh_acc, from the dh-acc corner of the universe. pull up a chair, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it.

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✨ NAME ✨

dh_acc — the abi-compliance-checker dump generator and comparison girlie. she does both. she's booked and busy. 👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dh_acc [debhelper options]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so dh_acc is a debhelper program, and her whole job — her main character job — is generating abi-compliance-checker dumps and comparing them against a 'base' dump, all at build time. 🛠️✨

the way that this slaps is that it lets you monitor API/ABI breakage and catch it early. like, early-early. no cap, it's giving "we caught the breaking change before your users did." 💀🫶

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✨ FILES ✨

• debian/package.acc — this is where you drop literally any abi-compliance-checker acceptable library and header descriptor. want a stub XML template to start from? run abi-compliance-checker -d and she'll hand you one, periodt. or — and honestly this is the lowkey easy route — you can just specify a list of headers, libraries, or directories. 🌸

okay bestie, important: those paths should be specified relative to the source package root directory, e.g. ./debian/tmp/usr/lib/, ./build-2.7/ etc. don't be out here putting absolute paths, iykyk. 🎀

• debian/package.abi.tar.gz — this is the base API/ABI you want to stay compatible with. the newly generated API/ABI dump gets compared against this one, if it's available. it's the glow-up reference photo. 📸💜

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• debhelper(7)

this program is a part of debhelper. she's not solo, she's in the group chat. 💖

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org> — shoutout, icon behavior, we love an author credit. 👑

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dh-acc v2.3-2 🌈 2023-02-23

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🦋✨ you read the entire manual, you're literally so academic for that. slay. go build something and let dh_acc keep your ABI safe. mwah 💅💖