libfdt and dtc

[Sean Bruno]

I noted that src.conf(8) seems to indicate that libfdt is installed by
default on FreeBSD, but I see no evidence that its used outside of
building sys/boot.

Is there something I'm missing here or have we not switched something to
install/build a userland version of libfdt?

sean

[Emmanuel Vadot]

On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 13:17:01 -0600

Post by Sean Bruno
I noted that src.conf(8) seems to indicate that libfdt is installed by
default on FreeBSD, but I see no evidence that its used outside of
building sys/boot.
Is there something I'm missing here or have we not switched something to
install/build a userland version of libfdt?
sean

This is not what src.conf(5) indicate, WITHOUT_FDT is used to build
loader(8) without FDT support. But it says that when building with
WITH_FDT this will build dtc but this seems wrong.

There was some discussion to install libfdt but I don't think we came
up with a conclusion other than "No userland tool uses it and if we add
tool to use it we should import it as a private lib".