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

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 problem.
>> =

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

> Yes, definitely.  Building FreeBSD on other platforms is one of the reque=
sts we get very often from embedded systems vendors.  Cheap virtualisation =
has made it less urgent (they can just stick a FreeBSD VirtualBox VM on the=
ir workstations), but it's definitely something we'd like eventually.  To m=
y knowledge, no one is working on it, but we should aim to make life easy f=
or whoever does...

I guess I should clarify: I wasn=92t talking about cross building in genera=
l, but specifically on Windows.  It=92s far easier to setup a case-sensitiv=
e file system on OS X and cross build FreeBSD from there than it is on Wind=
ows.  I=92m not even sure NetBSD builds on Windows with Cygwin anymore.

Warner was working on building FreeBSD from OS X, IIRC.

--
Rui Paulo

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