Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 18:12:04 -0500 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.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: <CAF6rxgkNf_rDMSDUH911pB9qZJAVg31-wpQwXhH7NaLZ81%2BdCQ@mail.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 7 March 2014 13:50, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@felyko.com> wrote: > 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: >> >>> 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 proble= m. >>> >>> Is this something we want to support? >> >> Yes, definitely. Building FreeBSD on other platforms is one of the requ= ests we get very often from embedded systems vendors. Cheap virtualisation= has made it less urgent (they can just stick a FreeBSD VirtualBox VM on th= eir 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=E2=80=99t talking about cross building i= n general, but specifically on Windows. It=E2=80=99s far easier to setup a= case-sensitive file system on OS X and cross build FreeBSD from there than= it is on Windows. 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 Eitan Adler
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