Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 10:09:41 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: deorbiting /usr/lib/libstand.a, moving to sysboot Message-ID: <CANCZdfqO_ou2FSAqjEAcha1hn-np3Gixz3tNcYQ26nhgNLeJrw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1507565085.77958.3.camel@freebsd.org> References: <CANCZdfrvD04cL3A1J3nKZ2uFNNkOrcVnMvobdoyXkRGx8VK8Vg@mail.gmail.com> <23C4A573-05A7-4D76-9179-19169ECAB570@FreeBSD.org> <1507565085.77958.3.camel@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Ian Lepore <ian@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@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
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