NAME:

ABI Monitor (abi-monitor) Monitor and build new versions of a C/C++ software library

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.

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

USAGE:

abi-monitor [options] [profile]

EXAMPLES:

abi-monitor -get -build profile.json

INFORMATION OPTIONS:

-h|-help

Print this help.

-dumpversion

Print the tool version (1.12) and don't do anything else.

GENERAL OPTIONS:

-get

Download new library versions.

-get-old

Download old packages from OldSourceUrl option of the profile.

-build

Build library versions.

-rebuild

Re-build library versions.

-limit NUM

Limit number of operations to NUM. This is useful if you want to download or build only NUM packages.

-v NUM

Build only one particular version.

-output PATH

Path to output profile. The tool will overwrite the input profile by default.

-build-shared

Build shared objects from static ones if they cannot be build by the library makefile or build script.

-build-new

Build newly found packages only. This option should be used with -get option.

-debug

Enable debug messages.

OTHER OPTIONS:

-make OPT

Add options to 'make' command (e.g. '-j4').

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