From: freeman.zhang1992@gmail.com (Freeman Zhang)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Problem in Getting Mainline Kernel
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 21:58:36 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5480688C.2030005@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141204131230.GI5741@vega.codepro.be>
Hi Kristof,
You are right, I did clone the source on mac os. And I am really
suffering :(
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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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 [this message]
2014-12-04 16:09 ` Kernel Apprentice
2014-12-05 1:29 ` Freeman Zhang
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