Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 19:34:19 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@freebsd.org>, David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org>, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@felyko.com>, 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: <F3DFE538-EABF-42C5-9CE8-7033465E986B@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmomtrxF-FbbQrm32MN61rrpD9gfEMuy1wrEvc3NP6xtqkw@mail.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> <CAF6rxgkNf_rDMSDUH911pB9qZJAVg31-wpQwXhH7NaLZ81%2BdCQ@mail.gmail.com> <22DB6968-3DCC-4B35-9210-891DB28D7CE7@gmail.com> <CAJ-VmomtrxF-FbbQrm32MN61rrpD9gfEMuy1wrEvc3NP6xtqkw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mar 7, 2014, at 6:30 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On 7 March 2014 15:25, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: >>=20 >> On Mar 7, 2014, at 4:12 PM, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote: >>=20 >>> On 7 March 2014 13:50, 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't talking about cross building in = general, but specifically on Windows. It's far easier to setup a = case-sensitive file system on OS X and cross build FreeBSD from there = 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 >> The big issue isn't case sensitivity or file names ending in dot. The = real issue is that our build just isn't setup for this at the moment and = it would be a big lift to make it work at all. Sure, go ahead and fix = this minor flea-bite of an issue, but there are several large = elephant-sized issues before we could have even a tiny chance of doing = this... >>=20 >=20 > are those issues documented anywhere? :) I believe I talked to some notes at a developer=92s summit 5 years ago = or so on what I found. The hardest part is bootstrapping the tools = needed in the build. Warner
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