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

[Warner Losh]

On Mar 7, 2014, at 11:50 AM, Rui Paulo <rpaulo at felyko.com> wrote:

> On 7 Mar 2014, at 10:38, David Chisnall <theraven at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 7 Mar 2014, at 16:41, Rui Paulo <rpaulo at FreeBSD.org> 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?
>> 
>> Yes, definitely.  Building FreeBSD on other platforms is one of the requests we get very often from embedded systems vendors.  Cheap virtualisation has made it less urgent (they can just stick a FreeBSD VirtualBox VM on their workstations), but it's definitely something we'd like eventually.  To my knowledge, no one is working on it, but we should aim to make life easy for whoever does...
> 
> I guess I should clarify: I wasn’t talking about cross building in general, but specifically on Windows.  It’s far easier to setup a case-sensitive file system on OS X and cross build FreeBSD from there than it is on Windows.  I’m not even sure NetBSD builds on Windows with Cygwin anymore.
> 
> Warner was working on building FreeBSD from OS X, IIRC.

When I worked at Cisco in 2008, yes. That work went approximately no-where when I hit a huge snag in building gdb using static configurations for FreeBSD, but on a OS X host and the differences between them mattering.

Warner