Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 13:52:38 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@felyko.com> Cc: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, David Chisnall <theraven@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: <473D0436-9FCB-40A3-A774-B3215DBB9C80@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3D879607-7AB5-475E-86DC-BBD97FC7269D@felyko.com> References: <5319757E.1060301@freebsd.org> <821C2C51-604E-43E0-9796-300996B81B41@FreeBSD.org> <40D5835F-679A-4ED9-AFC4-8E80773E5D82@FreeBSD.org> <3D879607-7AB5-475E-86DC-BBD97FC7269D@felyko.com>
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On Mar 7, 2014, at 11:50 AM, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@felyko.com> wrote: > On 7 Mar 2014, at 10:38, David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >=20 >> 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... >=20 > 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. >=20 > Warner was working on building FreeBSD from OS X, IIRC. When I worked at Cisco in 2008, yes. That work went approximately = no-where when I hit a huge snag in building gdb using static = configurations for FreeBSD, but on a OS X host and the differences = between them mattering. Warner
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