Problem in Getting Mainline Kernel

[Kernel Apprentice]

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 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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