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

From: David Chisnall <theraven_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 18:38:38 +0000
On 7 Mar 2014, at 16:41, 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, definitely.  Building FreeBSD on other platforms is one of the requests we get very often from embedded systems vendors.  Cheap virtualisation 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 easy for whoever does...

David
Received on Fri Mar 07 2014 - 17:38:53 UTC

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