Provided by: abigail-tools_1.2-1_amd64 
NAME
abilint - validate an abigail ABI representation
abilint parses the native XML representation of an ABI as emitted by abidw. Once it has parsed the XML
representation of the ABI, abilint builds and in-memory model from it. It then tries to save it back to
an XML form, to standard output. If that read-write operation succeeds chances are the input XML ABI
representation is meaningful.
Note that the main intent of this tool to help debugging issues in the underlying Libabigail library.
Note also that abilint can also read an ELF input file, build the in-memory model for its ABI, and
serialize that model back into XML to standard output. In that case, the ELF input file must be
accompanied with its debug information in the DWARF format.
INVOCATION
abilint [options] [<abi-file1>]
OPTIONS
• --help
Display a short help message and exits.
• –version | -v
Display the version of the program and exit.
• --debug-info-dir <path>
When reading an ELF input file which debug information is split out into a separate file, this
options tells abilint where to find that separate debug information file.
Note that path must point to the root directory under which the debug information is arranged in a
tree-like manner. Under Red Hat based systems, that directory is usually <root>/usr/lib/debug.
Note also that this option is not mandatory for split debug information installed by your system’s
package manager because then abidiff knows where to find it.
• --diff
For XML inputs, perform a text diff between the input and the memory model saved back to disk. This
can help to spot issues in the handling of the XML format by the underlying Libabigail library.
• --noout
Do not display anything on standard output. The return code of the command is the only way to know
if the command succeeded.
• --suppressions | suppr <path-to-suppression-specifications-file>
Use a suppression specification file located at path-to-suppression-specifications-file. Note that
this option can appear multiple times on the command line. In that case, all of the provided
suppression specification files are taken into account. ABI artifacts matched by the suppression
specifications are suppressed from the output of this tool.
• --headers-dir | --hd <headers-directory-path-1>
Specifies where to find the public headers of the first shared library that the tool has to
consider. The tool will thus filter out types that are not defined in public headers.
• --stdin | --
Read the input content from standard input.
• --tu
Expect the input XML to represent a single translation unit.
AUTHOR
Dodji Seketeli
COPYRIGHT
2014-2018, Red Hat, Inc.
Apr 24, 2018 ABILINT(1)