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

[M. Warner Losh]

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.  Since there's little harm, and much benefit,
why argue?

Warner