Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 17:11:59 +0200 From: Jean-Louis Thirot <thirot@univ-brest.fr> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> Cc: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: Re: TkWine setup under FreeBSD Message-ID: <371C993F.5D4579D2@univ-brest.fr> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990420084200.11384L-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
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Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > > The following is a message I sent to the author of "TkWine", a nice tool > > for downloading, configuring, building. installing and running Wine, which > > unfortunately, doesn't work on FreeBSD! > > > > I'm really not knowledgeable enough to provide the information he requested > > in response, so I thought this might be a good place to ask. :-) > > > > I've Cc'ed this message to the author, to include him in any discussion > > that arises. He seems genuinely interested in getting this thing to work > > under FreeBSD. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Conrad > > He's asking how to get the number of processors in a FreeBSD > system. If he must know this then he can take the output of: > > `sysctl -n hw.ncpu` > > that will give him the number of CPUs in a FreeBSD box. > > If he has any other questions, or you wish to post a URL to > his program I can show him other ways of getting this system dependant > information from FreeBSD. > > i think the uname he wants from freebsd is: > > uname -srm > > which on my box is: > > FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386 > > (this is the experimental version of freebsd, akin to the odd numbered > kernel releases of linux) > > on a non-developemental version he should expect > FreeBSD 3.[0-9](\.[0-9])?-STABLE i386 > > meaning 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.2.1 > > i think he should really just grab the output of "uname" > which is "FreeBSD" most freebsd systems behave the same way. Thanks a lot to both Conrad and Alfred. The above info is enough for this point... I'll come back to you when somebody complains again about some linuxism in my script! (I'm quite sure there are a few of them, just let me know!) Bye, Jean-Louis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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