Re: warning: filename ends with '.', which is not allowed on Win

On Mar 7, 2014, at 9:47 AM, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote:

> On 7 March 2014 11:41, 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 problem.
>> =

>> Is this something we want to support?
> =

> Yes.
> =

>>  NetBSD made some invasive changes on their source tree to be able to su=
pport case-insensitive filesystems (like renaming 'cvs' to 'xcvs' to avoid =
clashing with the 'CVS' metadata directory), but they support building NetB=
SD on many different platforms.
> =

> Has anyone enumerated the problematic files for FreeBSD ?

Last time I looked there were only a handful. I=92ll conduct a census and g=
et a concrete enumeration of the problem=85

Warner

>> We don't support that yet, though.
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> However, being able to checkout out the source code is a prerequisite
> to building out other platforms.
> =

>> The file in question can be easily renamed, I think.
> =

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> Eitan Adler
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