deorbiting /usr/lib/libstand.a, moving to sysboot

[Warner Losh]

On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Dimitry Andric <dim at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 9 Oct 2017, at 07:45, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to deorbit /usr/lib/stand.a and /usr/include/stand.h. These are
> > really parts of the boot loader with an unstable API and shouldn't be
> > installed into the system. It's really a private library to the boot
> loader.
>
> Though I completely agree with this, I am still interested in the
> historical reasons for separating out this library for general userland
> consumption.  Were there any other parts of world that happened to use
> libstand?
>

Nope. As far as I can tell, it's never been used in FreeBSD.

Historically, it was use for the stand-alone programs used to bootstrap the
system (eg to copy the miniroot file from tape to disk swap area for the
install and disk formatting and partitioning).

Warner