svn commit: r187332 - head/tools/regression/usr.bin/jot

[David O'Brien]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 06:14:35PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20090119165030.GA18409 at dragon.NUXI.org>
>             "David O'Brien" <obrien at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> : On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 02:00:55PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
> : > 
> : > On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> : > 
> : >> Was this discussed somewhere? I don't understand why we should restrict 
> : >> our filesystem naming because of limitation of auxilary filesystems. 
> : >> There're even more restrictive filesystems available, we couldn't support 
> : >> them all. While previous modifications looked harmless this one seems 
> : >> questionable to me.
> : >> 
> : >> I understand, this is a bikesched, but I really don't see a reason. You 
> : >> can't build FreeBSD on windows anyway.
> : > 
> : > Many of us would *very* much like to be able to cross-build FreeBSD from 
> : > both Windows and Mac OS X, which would be highly desirable for embedded 
> : > systems and appliance shops.
> : 
> : Run VMware.  Seriously.  Or raise a serious discussion on developers@
> : about this and get conciseness that cross building on MacOS X and
> : MS-Windows is a goal.
> 
> I've tried this on my mac.  It doesn't work very well at all, and it a
> pita for file sharing.

Sorry - I don't quite follow.  What is "it"?

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)