[QPID-5476] ABI check script isn't robust enough

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.24
• Fix Version/s: 0.27
• Component/s: C++ Build
• Assignee: Andrew Stitcher
• Reporter: Andrew Stitcher
• Created: 14/Jan/14 21:22
• Updated: 03/Jun/14 15:35
• Resolved: 14/Jan/14 21:28

Description

The check-abi script has robustness issues in particular:

• It is vulnerable to failing due to different sort orders for different executables, if not everything respects the current locale's sort order.
• It uses non portable command lines for sed and mktemp.