XML Output: libxo - provide single API to output TXT, XML, JSON and HTML

[John-Mark Gurney]

Alfred Perlstein wrote this message on Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 22:28 -0800:
> I see libxo has landed in FreeBSD, but it appears that the userland mods 
> to the utilities never made it in?  Is my assessment correct?

Some has made it in... and that introduced a new issue... If you have
a system w/ split root and /usr, then you won't be able to use all
the utilities in / because of this:
# ldd `which df`
/bin/df:
        libxo.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxo.so.0 (0x800820000)
        libutil.so.9 => /lib/libutil.so.9 (0x800a2f000)
        libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x800c41000)

Notice how df now depends upon a library in /usr which is a big no-no...

libxo needs to be moved to /lib or we need to rip out the support from
all utilities that live in /...

Adrian pointed this out already, but hasn't gotten any traction...

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