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

[Warner Losh]

On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2017-10-09 at 17:57 +0200, Dimitry Andric 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?
> >
> > -Dimitry
> >
>
> There are out-of-tree users of libstand.  Perhaps not many, but a
> couple times after doing something to libstand I've received emails
> from people that thanked me for the enhancement and mentioned some non-
> loader(8) use of the lib in passing.  (Unfortunately, I can't find any
> of those mails now, they were from 2-3 years ago.)
>

They can email me and I'll help them convert over... :)

Warner