Problem in Getting Mainline Kernel

[Freeman Zhang]

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 at 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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