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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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