Getting # Physical CPUs

[Don]

dsimcha wrote:
> == Quote from Don (nospam at nospam.com)'s article
>> dsimcha wrote:
>>> == Quote from Don (nospam at nospam.com)'s article
>>>> [snip]
>>>> Thanks, that's definitely a bug. The code in core.cpuid has not been
>>>> tested on the most recent CPUs (Intel added a totally new method) and
>>>> their documentation is quite convoluted. It's hard to get it right
>>>> without an actual machine.
>>> Bug 4462.  http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4462
>> Please check if the latest druntime commit fixes this.
> 
> Thanks.  Unfortunately I can't test this because the Linux build script for Phobos
> is broken on my machine in some inscrutable way.  Frankly, my success rate at
> building stuff from other people's make files is well under 50%.  Make is just a
> horrible technology that needs to die a horrible death.  We should be eating our
> own dogfood and using rdmd for build scripts.

I agree.
In this case, core.cpuid is completely stand-alone. So you could just 
copy it into another directory and change the module statement.