Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 08:41:45 -0800 From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org> To: David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: warning: filename ends with '.', which is not allowed on Windows: 'tools/test/sort/bigtest/q-1.024.003.' Message-ID: <821C2C51-604E-43E0-9796-300996B81B41@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <5319757E.1060301@freebsd.org> References: <5319757E.1060301@freebsd.org>
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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 = 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. -- Rui Paulo
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