Building the Linux kernel on a Mac inside Docker: Attempt #1
09 Aug 2016I’ve recently been using my Docker for Mac install to try my hand at packaging the latest upstream kernel for my Raspberry Pi. I have a Debian Jessie ARM rootfs with kernel-package installed and the ideas was to run make-kpkg on an OSX-local checkout. It was able to build the main kernel but then:
make[3]: *** Documentation/Kbuild: Is a directory. Stop.
Makefile:1260: recipe for target '_clean_Documentation' failed
make[2]: *** [_clean_Documentation] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/src/debian/linux-source-4.7.0/usr/src/linux-source-4.7.0'
debian/ruleset/targets/source.mk:35: recipe for target 'debian/stamp/install/linux-source-4.7.0' failed
make[1]: *** [debian/stamp/install/linux-source-4.7.0] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/src'
debian/ruleset/local.mk:96: recipe for target 'kernel_source' failed
make: *** [kernel_source] Error 2
The moral of this story is to not try and build kernels on case insensitive filesystems.