ubuntu-dev-tools/check-symbols

#!/bin/bash
# Copyright 2006-2007 (C) Daniel Holbach <daniel.holbach@ubuntu.com>
# Modified by Siegfried-A. Gevatter <rainct@ubuntu.com>
# License: GPLv2
#
# This script is used to get a diff of the exported symbols of all .so files in
# every binary package of package $1.

PACKAGES="`apt-cache showsrc $1 | grep ^Binary | sed 's/Binary\:\ //g;s/\,//g' | sort -u`"
DEBLINE=""
DEBUG=False

if [[ -z $1 ]]; then
    echo "Missing argument: source package name.";
    exit;
fi

if [[ -z $2 ]]; then
    DEBDIR="/var/cache/pbuilder/result";
else
    DEBDIR="$2";
fi

for pack in $PACKAGES;
do
    for lib in `dpkg -L $pack | grep -E "\.so$" | sort -u`;
    do
        LIBNAME=$(basename $lib);
        nm -D $lib | cut -d' ' -f3 | sort -u > /tmp/$LIBNAME.1;
    done;
    DEBLINE="$DEBLINE $DEBDIR/$pack*.deb "; 
done

if [[ -z $DEBLINE ]]; then
    echo "Package doesn't exist: $1."; exit
fi

NOFILE=True
for filename in $DEBLINE; do
    if [[ ${filename: -5} != "*.deb" ]]; then
        NOFILE=False
        [[ $DEBUG != True ]] || echo "Found binary file: $filename"
    fi
done

if [[ $NOFILE == True ]]; then
    echo "No matching binary files found in «$DEBDIR»."; exit
fi

sudo dpkg -i $DEBLINE;

for pack in $PACKAGES;
do
    for lib in `dpkg -L $pack | grep -E "\.so$" | sort -u`;
    do
        LIBNAME=$(basename $lib);
        nm -D $lib | cut -d' ' -f3 | sort -u > /tmp/$LIBNAME.2;
        echo "Checking: $lib";
        diff -u /tmp/$LIBNAME.{1,2};
        rm /tmp/$LIBNAME.{1,2};
    done;
done