From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 7 23:19:42 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 DE23112F for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 23:19:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx1.scaleengine.net (beauharnois2.bhs1.scaleengine.net [142.4.218.15]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CE4DB98 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 23:19:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.1.1.1] (S01060001abad1dea.hm.shawcable.net [50.70.146.73]) (Authenticated sender: allan.jude@scaleengine.com) by mx1.scaleengine.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3D027641D0 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 23:19:39 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <531A5406.6030300@allanjude.com> Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:19:34 -0500 From: Allan Jude User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: warning: filename ends with '.', which is not allowed on Windows: 'tools/test/sort/bigtest/q-1.024.003.' 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> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="N3o40bLR6s0kC62NqDL4WU7me99tgIk2I" 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 23:19:42 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --N3o40bLR6s0kC62NqDL4WU7me99tgIk2I Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2014-03-07 18:12, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 7 March 2014 13:50, Rui Paulo wrote: >> On 7 Mar 2014, at 10:38, David Chisnall wrote: >> >>> On 7 Mar 2014, at 16:41, 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 someon= e >>>>> wants to check out freebsd source code on Windows, it will be a pro= blem. >>>> >>>> Is this something we want to support? >>> >>> Yes, definitely. Building FreeBSD on other platforms is one of the r= equests we get very often from embedded systems vendors. Cheap virtualis= ation has made it less urgent (they can just stick a FreeBSD VirtualBox V= M on their workstations), but it's definitely something we'd like eventua= lly. 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=E2=80=99t talking about cross buildin= g in general, but specifically on Windows. It=E2=80=99s far easier to se= tup a case-sensitive file system on OS X and cross build FreeBSD from the= re than it is on Windows. >=20 > Over 50% of the people that come to FreeBSD.org run windows. If it is > possible to support building on windows, we should try. >=20 Even well shy of 'building' on windows, I do most of my docs work on windows. I even wrote most of the new code for bsdinstall on a windows machine. Being able to checkout the svn tree and work on it on my existing work station is nice. --=20 Allan Jude --N3o40bLR6s0kC62NqDL4WU7me99tgIk2I Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTGlQLAAoJEJrBFpNRJZKfOqMQAKjxoRIRgmXQNF/gIAUL0ckd earqIR6lmEzaKcVPZpLqttt0gzk0ZnGiEnzncbXOgvMsYCYrBPNv4myeiu/pbxkq DAgAL6/dqKFQbCN1ynAHRSD6yDIgKE1vrXwNTkftfMGNIBP1ilKiWCuncE/ZG3i0 WmVY6tBOoO6uJDtRUGi/E9e5fx/mjEkOB6lbuFRgRRiM0TNIt49jVxNpbWHY6N0e dP+4AXOCAW/kUdxAsdpSJQUmwMgvmYA+Tq9pGmp6tvdaACEW7i3KhHavTnuAzyaT gcP3GCsnLzViQHSa7FXFcswCwvhsNCv4x/NbQ5mavMtuHvzFyQNTtI10oI0flLDx 5uKwNu/HO4LjQI8UkqI30tpFiQEWhVHVhwqYmWMoNeAIMTAJOqxatJH2PFoEV+Tf 0COP8ADOHi3b3aeibE0ieE70jfzHNg3NWLBNSVw/9++5Lg704VnPgNJ69YNMM9nS usmtY57P6Lnp3gKOb6vLKJuuFsKqagC1Z6GNY+3+IiCq75t/zgBpdYJZqtiMB/FO /b1jiN6ok/QVAp+ttbJrmTEjk6MmFURLa2ua2mMpObSVgHwRB0xlnnwgXe9fPtH3 id4oieKc+8ZjollwlWx1HwO6UbAciNerse2dT1ZmcwUYgZKiMdC1CjjJPmbPCzgy PBbtGm4YtvAmVp/YP6fl =tR8O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --N3o40bLR6s0kC62NqDL4WU7me99tgIk2I--