From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: kernelapprentice@gmail.com (Kernel Apprentice) Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 17:09:16 +0100 Subject: Problem in Getting Mainline Kernel In-Reply-To: <5480688C.2030005@gmail.com> References: <548051E6.3010308@gmail.com> <20141204131230.GI5741@vega.codepro.be> <5480688C.2030005@gmail.com> Message-ID: <5480872C.7020101@gmail.com> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org 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 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 >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies >