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

On 3/7/14 8:41 AM, Rui Paulo 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?  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.  We don't support that yet, though.
>
> The file in question can be easily renamed, I think.

We definitely want to support untaring/zipping the code on Windows. Even 
if not for cross compiling, just for convenience of use.

-- 
Alfred Perlstein