[Lsb-infrastructure] LSB ATK Manager 0.2 with app analysis features

[Vladimir Rubanov]

We have extended LSB Application Testkit Manager with additional features
for application analysis and uploading info for publishing in the LSB
Navigator (Linux Apps section). Basically, this allows visual analysis of
the external libraries and interfaces required by a set of application
binaries (internal dependencies are excluded). 

 

The new ATK Manager is an alpha version for workgroup members review. We
plan for a release at the end of September after collecting feedback. In the
release we will also add an important part for analyzing external libraries
(a column will be added to the list of external libraries with the number of
actually required interfaces from each library, which in particular will
allow efficient diagnosis of libraries unnecessarily included into DT_NEEDED
sections). Also, for each interface there will be a hint in which library(s)
the interface is provided. For this purpose we need to build a mapping
between interfaces and libraries for all known libs in the modern
distributions.

 

Please check the tool and provide your comments. Meanwhile, the tool can be
already used for submitting info about more apps to the LSB Navigator (but
please no broad advertisements to do so yet). Details on how to use the tool
are at
http://ispras.freestandards.org/index.php/LSB_ATK_Manager_Getting_Started. 

 

The full release notes are at
http://ispras.freestandards.org/index.php/LSB_ATK_Manager_Release_Notes
(e.g. supporting the multi-LSB-version appchk is one of the new features).
The binaries are at
http://ispras.freestandards.org/index.php/LSB_ATK_Manager_Releases. The
sources are in the LF Bazaar.

 

We appreciate any feedback.

 

Vladimir.

 

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