On 7 March 2014 11:41, Rui Paulo <rpa...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 6 Mar 2014, at 23:30, David Xu <davi...@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. > 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. Has anyone enumerated the problematic files for FreeBSD ? > We don't support that yet, though. However, being able to checkout out the source code is a prerequisite to building out other platforms. > The file in question can be easily renamed, I think. -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
