Re: warning: filename ends with '.', which is not allowed on Windows: 'tools/test/sort/bigtest/q-1.024.003.'

From: Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 10:19:14 -0700
On Mar 7, 2014, at 9:47 AM, Eitan Adler <lists_at_eitanadler.com> wrote:

> On 7 March 2014 11:41, Rui Paulo <rpaulo_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 6 Mar 2014, at 23:30, David Xu <davidxu_at_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 support case-insensitive filesystems (like renaming 'cvs' to 'xcvs' to avoid clashing with the 'CVS' metadata directory), but they support building NetBSD on many different platforms.
> 
> Has anyone enumerated the problematic files for FreeBSD ?

Last time I looked there were only a handful. I’ll conduct a census and get a concrete enumeration of the problem…

Warner

>> We don't support that yet, though.
> 
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Eitan Adler
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