[libvirt] [PATCH v5 07/23] src: rewrite symfile library checker in Python

Ján Tomko jtomko at redhat.com
Wed Nov 20 05:59:09 UTC 2019


On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 02:38:10PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>As part of an goal to eliminate Perl from libvirt build tools,
>rewrite the check-symfile.pl tool in Python.
>
>This was a straight conversion, manually going line-by-line to
>change the syntax from Perl to Python. Thus the overall structure
>of the file and approach is the same.
>
>Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
>---
> Makefile.am               |  1 +
> scripts/check-symfile.py  | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> src/Makefile.am           |  5 +--
> src/admin/Makefile.inc.am |  4 +-
> src/check-symfile.pl      | 70 ----------------------------------
> 5 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)
> create mode 100755 scripts/check-symfile.py
> delete mode 100755 src/check-symfile.pl
>

>+with open(symfile, "r") as fh:
>+    for line in fh:
>+        line = line.strip()
>+        if line.find("{") != -1:
>+            continue
>+        if line.find("}") != -1:
>+            continue
>+        if line in ["global:", "local:"]:
>+            continue
>+        if line == "":
>+            continue
>+        if line[0] == '#':
>+            continue
>+        if line.find("*") != -1:
>+            continue
>+
>+        line = line.strip(";")

Unlike the perl version, this quietly ignores a missing semicolon.
But that will be caught by the linker earlier.

>+
>+        if line in wantsyms:
>+            print("Symbol $1 is listed twice", file=sys.stderr)
>+            ret = 1
>+        else:
>+            wantsyms[line] = True
>+

Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko at redhat.com>

Jano
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