diff --git a/lib/libc/misc/stack_protector.c b/lib/libc/misc/stack_protector.c
index ff26160c1..6569de866 100644
--- a/lib/libc/misc/stack_protector.c
+++ b/lib/libc/misc/stack_protector.c
@@ -86,7 +86,6 @@ __fail(const char *msg)
 #ifdef _LIBC
 	struct syslog_data sdata = SYSLOG_DATA_INIT;
 	struct sigaction sa;
-#endif
 	sigset_t mask;
 
 	/* Immediately block all signal handlers from running code */
@@ -94,7 +93,6 @@ __fail(const char *msg)
 	(void)sigdelset(&mask, SIGABRT);
 	(void)sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &mask, NULL);
 
-#ifdef _LIBC
 	/* This may fail on a chroot jail... */
 	syslog_ss(LOG_CRIT, &sdata, "%s", msg);
 #else
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/abort.c b/lib/libc/stdlib/abort.c
index 7f46b9ea0..1d14df6ac 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/abort.c
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/abort.c
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ __RCSID("$NetBSD: abort.c,v 1.15 2012/06/08 11:15:26 abs Exp $");
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 
+#if defined(_LIBC)
 extern void (*__cleanup)(void);
 static int aborting = 0;
 
@@ -82,3 +83,10 @@ abort(void)
 	(void)raise(SIGABRT);
 	_exit(1);
 }
+#else
+void
+abort(void)
+{
+	exit(1);
+}
+#endif /* defined(_LIBC) */