On Mar 7, 2014, at 6:30 PM, Adrian Chadd <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 7 March 2014 15:25, Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Mar 7, 2014, at 4:12 PM, Eitan Adler <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 7 March 2014 13:50, Rui Paulo <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On 7 Mar 2014, at 10:38, David Chisnall <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 7 Mar 2014, at 16:41, Rui Paulo <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On 6 Mar 2014, at 23:30, David Xu <[email protected]> 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. >>> >>> Over 50% of the people that come to FreeBSD.org run windows. If it is >>> possible to support building on windows, we should try. >> >> The big issue isn't case sensitivity or file names ending in dot. The real >> issue is that our build just isn't setup for this at the moment and it would >> be a big lift to make it work at all. Sure, go ahead and fix this minor >> flea-bite of an issue, but there are several large elephant-sized issues >> before we could have even a tiny chance of doing this... >> > > are those issues documented anywhere? :) I believe I talked to some notes at a developer’s summit 5 years ago or so on what I found. The hardest part is bootstrapping the tools needed in the build. Warner _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
