getting cpu info w/o parsing /var/run/dmesg.boot

[John Marino]

On 10/9/2015 2:43 PM, John Marino wrote:
> On 10/9/2015 2:36 PM, Hleb Valoshka wrote:
>> On 10/9/15, Markus Pfeiffer <markus.pfeiffer at morphism.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Just use the cpuid utility? It's available in dports...
>>
>> Your suggestion may be good for end user but not for ruby library.
>>
> 
> You are re-inventing the wheel:
> 
> http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/rubygem-ohai/
> 
> You're efforts would be better served to fix whatever prevents that port
> from building (on top of providing patches for it).
> 
> These types of ports are generally very low level, using C to check
> kernel structures.  They are extremely system specific.  It's not even
> the only ruby package that does this either.
> 

By the way, sysutils/rubygem-ohai is already in dports.  Who knows if it
works or not.

John