Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 00:01:13 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: 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: <531ACE49.80203@mu.org> In-Reply-To: <821C2C51-604E-43E0-9796-300996B81B41@FreeBSD.org> References: <5319757E.1060301@freebsd.org> <821C2C51-604E-43E0-9796-300996B81B41@FreeBSD.org>
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On 3/7/14 8:41 AM, Rui Paulo wrote: > 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. We definitely want to support untaring/zipping the code on Windows. Even if not for cross compiling, just for convenience of use. -- Alfred Perlstein
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