From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 7 16:47:46 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EC5DB9FF for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 16:47:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qg0-x232.google.com (mail-qg0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c04::232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A3A15346 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 16:47:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qg0-f50.google.com with SMTP id q108so3208444qgd.9 for ; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 08:47:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=S1NfkWXQuv55MGWRWtv5C3GNLaODcM3PTU7RxQKjlBc=; b=KDJkmPRSxZY5DgRL6EjW3iMoVNZNpkeWXLJ4+Ax1sFNyF9+S78/G7TcCoNI8mmRfRv vj8T/Eu1SwgbgCusxMW/8y0hZl9FkdB4Ammn1HqjcElKCqOJpYjOtuc+EBcURQI67MoA 1yNNcfQe4EWawop1M+XrvkyTQekNlpjU6Y12w= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=S1NfkWXQuv55MGWRWtv5C3GNLaODcM3PTU7RxQKjlBc=; b=Wa1xGl4lnL3Yv3UIzxyLaUha/0twFug6bRqdAwXXqtcCxzu2v53GP2GMwNxZU7NB4B wZaG1NPzdRaKe8GqqUvsRHS0pSAd9A5yHQY8ZMO6UbOZ0b+Sbc7eLXL5fJWHn3oLGsgt MVjRAcOJOfSnnry7A337/kCuhmJF7och/r44tf5kfGTk5r+JKcQoiBVKQP+gFFCbrpsk hIra6eV/2r4S+p4AKclGkichVTAr5y27A4fMt8fIGQl0LYQwWaoXo7Kev7RrNzoqHwxH +I8Xgx/pxQdHjJjUOTt6mwyZ/xZ36Sug9j6cldzoKxOqYgAOGsNO7kjUD587H/cp42w0 B59Q== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlTeR9dTJf1odCqEfKOBXF4Be/+yIGrmZM5ccR+3dPFj/DzQVoKsAieE18OtM/d0z0u/pd7 X-Received: by 10.140.47.20 with SMTP id l20mr21965498qga.9.1394210865810; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 08:47:45 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.96.147.225 with HTTP; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 08:47:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <821C2C51-604E-43E0-9796-300996B81B41@FreeBSD.org> References: <5319757E.1060301@freebsd.org> <821C2C51-604E-43E0-9796-300996B81B41@FreeBSD.org> From: Eitan Adler Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 11:47:14 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: warning: filename ends with '.', which is not allowed on Windows: 'tools/test/sort/bigtest/q-1.024.003.' To: Rui Paulo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: FreeBSD Current , David Xu X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 16:47:47 -0000 On 7 March 2014 11:41, Rui Paulo wrote: > On 6 Mar 2014, at 23:30, David Xu wrote: >> it seems filename ended with a dot is illegal on Windows, if someone >> wants to check out freebsd source code on Windows, it will be a problem. > > Is this something we want to support? Yes. > NetBSD made some invasive changes on their source tree to be able to support case-insensitive filesystems (like renaming 'cvs' to 'xcvs' to avoid clashing with the 'CVS' metadata directory), but they support building NetBSD on many different platforms. Has anyone enumerated the problematic files for FreeBSD ? > We don't support that yet, though. However, being able to checkout out the source code is a prerequisite to building out other platforms. > The file in question can be easily renamed, I think. -- Eitan Adler