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CMPDYLIB(1)							   CMPDYLIB(1)

NAME
       cmpdylib - compare two dynamic shared libraries for compatibility

SYNOPSIS
       cmpdylib oldLibrary newLibrary

DESCRIPTION
       cmpdylib	 compares  two	versions of a dynamic shared library to see if
       they are compatible with each other. If the two versions are incompati‐
       ble,  the  reason is printed to stdout, and the exit status is nonzero.
       If they are compatible, nothing is printed,  and	 the  exit  status  is
       zero.

       To see if the two versions are compatible, cmpdylib first verifies that
       newLibrary was built for all of the architectures that  oldLibrary  was
       built for. If so, for each architecture, it checks to see if the global
       symbols defined in oldLibrary are still defined in newLibrary.  It then
       looks  for  new	symbols,  symbols  defined  in newLibrary that are not
       defined in oldLibrary.  If it finds new symbols, it compares  the  com‐
       patibility  version numbers of the two libraries.  If the compatibility
       version number of newLibrary is greater than oldLibrary, the  libraries
       are  still compatible.  If the compatibility version number is the same
       or less, the libraries are incompatible.

OPTIONS
       oldLibrary
	      The older version of the library.

       newLibrary
	      The newer version of the library.

EXAMPLES
       This example shows the result of performing cmpdylib on two  incompati‐
       ble  versions  of  the  Foundation library. As stated, the versions are
       incompatible because the newer version was not built for the ppc archi‐
       tecture.

       cmpdylib	    /System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Foundation
       Foundation_proj/Foundation
       cmpdylib: file: Foundation_proj/Foundation does not  contain  architec‐
       ture: ppc
       cmpdylib:  new dynamic shared library: Foundation_proj/Foundation  does
       not contain architecture ppc

DIAGNOSTICS
       The exit status is zero if the  library	versions  are  compatible  and
       nonzero if they are incompatible.

BUGS
       There  are  lots of other things that could be checked for that are not
       (such as the Objective C API).

Apple Computer, Inc.	       November 3, 1997			   CMPDYLIB(1)

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