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

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:
>> =

>> On Mar 7, 2014, at 4:12 PM, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote:
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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:
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>>>>> On 7 Mar 2014, at 16:41, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
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>>>>>> 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 pro=
blem.
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>>>>>> Is this something we want to support?
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>>>>> Yes, definitely.  Building FreeBSD on other platforms is one of the r=
equests we get very often from embedded systems vendors.  Cheap virtualisat=
ion 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 ea=
sy for whoever does...
>>>> =

>>>> I guess I should clarify: I wasn't talking about cross building in gen=
eral, but specifically on Windows.  It's far easier to setup a case-sensiti=
ve file system on OS X and cross build FreeBSD from there than it is on Win=
dows.
>>> =

>>> 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't case sensitivity or file names ending in dot. The re=
al issue is that our build just isn't setup for this at the moment and it w=
ould be a big lift to make it work at all. Sure, go ahead and fix this mino=
r flea-bite of an issue, but there are several large elephant-sized issues =
before we could have even a tiny chance of doing this...
>> =

> =

> are those issues documented anywhere? :)

I believe I talked to some notes at a developer=92s summit 5 years ago or s=
o on what I found. The hardest part is bootstrapping the tools needed in th=
e build.

Warner

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