Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 10:50:48 -0800 From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@felyko.com> To: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>, David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: warning: filename ends with '.', which is not allowed on Windows: 'tools/test/sort/bigtest/q-1.024.003.' Message-ID: <3D879607-7AB5-475E-86DC-BBD97FC7269D@felyko.com> In-Reply-To: <40D5835F-679A-4ED9-AFC4-8E80773E5D82@FreeBSD.org> References: <5319757E.1060301@freebsd.org> <821C2C51-604E-43E0-9796-300996B81B41@FreeBSD.org> <40D5835F-679A-4ED9-AFC4-8E80773E5D82@FreeBSD.org>
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On 7 Mar 2014, at 10:38, David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On 7 Mar 2014, at 16:41, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >=20 >> On 6 Mar 2014, at 23:30, David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.org> 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. >>=20 >> Is this something we want to support? >=20 > Yes, definitely. Building FreeBSD on other platforms is one of the = requests we get very often from embedded systems vendors. Cheap = virtualisation has made it less urgent (they can just stick a FreeBSD = VirtualBox VM on their workstations), but it's definitely something we'd = like eventually. To my knowledge, no one is working on it, but we = should aim to make life easy for whoever does... I guess I should clarify: I wasn=92t talking about cross building in = general, but specifically on Windows. It=92s far easier to setup a = case-sensitive file system on OS X and cross build FreeBSD from there = than it is on Windows. I=92m not even sure NetBSD builds on Windows = with Cygwin anymore. Warner was working on building FreeBSD from OS X, IIRC. -- Rui Paulo
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