Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:06:05 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Jean-Louis Thirot <thirot@univ-brest.fr> Cc: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: Re: TkWine setup under FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990420110511.11384U-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <371C993F.5D4579D2@univ-brest.fr>
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On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Jean-Louis Thirot wrote: > 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!) Cool, we just want to see more programs available for people using alternate operating systems :) > > Bye, > Jean-Louis > -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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