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From: kernelapprentice@gmail.com (Kernel Apprentice)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Problem in Getting Mainline Kernel
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 17:09:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5480872C.7020101@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5480688C.2030005@gmail.com>

Am 04.12.14 um 14:58 schrieb Freeman Zhang:
> Hi Kristof,
>
> You are right, I did clone the source on mac os. And I am really
> suffering :(

I just tried it myself. Cloning works at least without *visible* errors. 
Cross compiling on OSX will lead to errors though I guess because of the 
aforementioned case insensivity.

I'm on Yosemity, btw.

>
>
> All the best!
>
> Freeman
>
> -------- Original Message --------
>> On 2014-12-04 20:21:58 (+0800), Freeman Zhang <freeman.zhang1992@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Finally I cloned the mainline kernel from
>>> "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git".
>>> However, when I'm looking at the git directory, I got nothing but:
>>>
>>> 	.   ..	arch  .DS_Store  .git  .gitignore  .mailmap
>>>
>> Are you by any chance trying to do this on an OS X machine?
>> That's going to lead to pain and suffering.
>>
>> For example, there are a couple of files which have the same name with
>> different case, which isn't going to work on a default OS X install.
>> By default OS X has a case insensitive file system. It's possible to
>> change that, but you *really* want a Linux system to build the kernel.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kristof
>>
>
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-04 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-04 12:21 Problem in Getting Mainline Kernel Freeman Zhang
2014-12-04 12:30 ` Vinícius Tinti
2014-12-04 13:12 ` Kristof Provost
2014-12-04 13:58   ` Freeman Zhang
2014-12-04 16:09     ` Kernel Apprentice [this message]
2014-12-05  1:29       ` Freeman Zhang

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