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

On Mar 7, 2014, at 4:12 PM, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote:

> 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 probl=
em.
>>>> =

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

>>> Yes, definitely.  Building FreeBSD on other platforms is one of the req=
uests we get very often from embedded systems vendors.  Cheap virtualisatio=
n has made it less urgent (they can just stick a FreeBSD VirtualBox VM on t=
heir 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=92t talking about cross building in gen=
eral, but specifically on Windows.  It=92s far easier to setup a case-sensi=
tive file system on OS X and cross build FreeBSD from there than it is on W=
indows.
> =

> Over 50% of the people that come to FreeBSD.org run windows.  If it is
> possible to support building on windows, we should try.

The big issue isn=92t case sensitivity or file names ending in dot. The rea=
l issue is that our build just isn=92t 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 min=
or flea-bite of an issue, but there are several large elephant-sized issues=
 before we could have even a tiny chance of doing this...

Warner

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