diff --git a/libc/src/assert/CMakeLists.txt b/libc/src/assert/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/libc/src/assert/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/libc/src/assert/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -6,9 +6,6 @@
     __assert_fail.h
     assert.h
   DEPENDS
-    # These two dependencies are temporary and should be replaced by fprintf
-    # later.
     libc.src.__support.OSUtil.osutil
-    libc.include.sys_syscall
     libc.src.stdlib.abort
 )
diff --git a/libc/src/assert/__assert_fail.cpp b/libc/src/assert/__assert_fail.cpp
--- a/libc/src/assert/__assert_fail.cpp
+++ b/libc/src/assert/__assert_fail.cpp
@@ -6,24 +6,12 @@
 //
 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 
+#include "src/__support/OSUtil/io.h"
 #include "src/assert/__assert_fail.h"
 #include "src/stdlib/abort.h"
 
-// These includes are temporary.
-#include "include/sys/syscall.h"  // For syscall numbers.
-#include "src/__support/OSUtil/syscall.h" // For internal syscall function.
-
 namespace __llvm_libc {
 
-// This is just a temporary solution to make assert available to internal
-// llvm libc code. In the future writeToStderr will not exist and __assert_fail
-// will call fprintf(stderr, ...).
-static void write_to_stderr(const char *s) {
-  size_t length = 0;
-  for (const char *curr = s; *curr; ++curr, ++length);
-  __llvm_libc::syscall(SYS_write, 2, s, length);
-}
-
 LLVM_LIBC_FUNCTION(void, __assert_fail,
                    (const char *assertion, const char *file, unsigned line,
                     const char *function)) {
diff --git a/libc/src/stdlib/CMakeLists.txt b/libc/src/stdlib/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/libc/src/stdlib/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/libc/src/stdlib/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -250,12 +250,7 @@
 
 # add_entrypoint_object(
 #   abort
-#   SRCS
-#     abort.cpp
-#   HDRS
-#     abort.h
+#   ALIAS
 #   DEPENDS
-#     libc.include.stdlib
-#     libc.src.signal.raise
-#     ._Exit
+#     .${LIBC_TARGET_OS}.abort
 # )
diff --git a/libc/src/stdlib/linux/CMakeLists.txt b/libc/src/stdlib/linux/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/libc/src/stdlib/linux/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/libc/src/stdlib/linux/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -9,3 +9,15 @@
     libc.include.stdlib
     libc.src.__support.OSUtil.osutil
 )
+
+# add_entrypoint_object(
+#   abort
+#   SRCS
+#     abort.cpp
+#   HDRS
+#     ../abort.h
+#   DEPENDS
+#     libc.include.stdlib
+#     libc.src.signal.raise
+#     ._Exit
+# )
diff --git a/libc/src/stdlib/abort.cpp b/libc/src/stdlib/linux/abort.cpp
rename from libc/src/stdlib/abort.cpp
rename to libc/src/stdlib/linux/abort.cpp