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

Brooks Davis brooks at freebsd.org
Thu Oct 12 16:57:02 UTC 2017


On Sun, Oct 08, 2017 at 11:45:37PM -0600, Warner Losh 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.

Kicking it out of src/lib will be a good thing.  It doesn't make sense
to build and install as part of the world and, for good reason, doesn't
follow normal rules.  It was a pain to deal with for CHERI and I think
we've disabled it entierly.

-- Brooks
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