--- /dev/null
+#!/bin/sh
+# generate a set of ABI signatures from a shared library
+
+SHAREDLIB="$1"
+
+GDBSCRIPT="gdb_syms.$$"
+
+(
+cat <<EOF
+set height 0
+set width 0
+EOF
+nm "$SHAREDLIB" | cut -d' ' -f2- | egrep '^[BDGTRVWS]' | grep -v @ | cut -c3- | sort | while read s; do
+ echo "echo $s: "
+ echo p $s
+done
+) > $GDBSCRIPT
+
+# forcing the terminal avoids a problem on Fedora12
+TERM=none gdb -batch -x $GDBSCRIPT "$SHAREDLIB" < /dev/null
+rm -f $GDBSCRIPT