From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 7 20:52:43 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 18671472 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 20:52:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pa0-f53.google.com (mail-pa0-f53.google.com [209.85.220.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DBB48D8D for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 20:52:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f53.google.com with SMTP id ld10so4637240pab.26 for ; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 12:52:42 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:content-type:mime-version:subject:from :in-reply-to:date:cc:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references :to; bh=c66LkjWszxUEEt24uYbDipnaXoOodoxEm0vKSx3azig=; b=VHn9ioOxqYUoFe044Bsw4PuVrU5hPIG8shlBBjSC4UBLRwa2bLXMLqMHhJ/CzYD8ZW +/TLW7sl4Dg7i/d6udDl4MsIL1m3v+zgDQOhE0GyxrRFiVyfjoyGJVq45G2GNDzs2zLP 9bo7r81FEy5lbwqgtFY4A1IKrKBe7WBN77+DExmy4vAjwpqJzovbyZWMWELxQZez0sUj HNqq8PLN8+WnalZN11z9zR9PkSgoR74evF1mhfAhDMYO3/xI3I7yDkDkjN6POruA97CZ jiJzGc4C+WJ0QOHTskZfZl4FjL/B9NlqgsniZRgGGBvgmxipzxz1zg+mW1Q6beA/bZ/e IEtA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQna9EwtRlLy8adgLayci27OkGQeqo5xo1tJguAJO4kTFgO8jdnLzs8NW/BFQLfRdZQxCOj0 X-Received: by 10.68.76.68 with SMTP id i4mr24075403pbw.73.1394225562209; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 12:52:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from lgmac-cvenus.corp.netflix.com (dc1-prod.netflix.com. [69.53.236.251]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ug9sm40074681pbc.11.2014.03.07.12.52.40 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 07 Mar 2014 12:52:41 -0800 (PST) Sender: Warner Losh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.2 \(1874\)) Subject: Re: warning: filename ends with '.', which is not allowed on Windows: 'tools/test/sort/bigtest/q-1.024.003.' From: Warner Losh In-Reply-To: <3D879607-7AB5-475E-86DC-BBD97FC7269D@felyko.com> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 13:52:38 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <473D0436-9FCB-40A3-A774-B3215DBB9C80@gmail.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> To: Rui Paulo X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1874) Cc: Rui Paulo , FreeBSD Current , David Chisnall , 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 20:52:43 -0000 On Mar 7, 2014, at 11:50 AM, Rui Paulo wrote: > On 7 Mar 2014, at 10:38, David Chisnall wrote: >=20 >> On 7 Mar 2014, at 16:41, Rui Paulo wrote: >>=20 >>> 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. >>>=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