libcpuid --------- libcpuid provides CPU identification for the x86 (and x86_64). For details about the programming API, please see the docs on the project's site (http://libcpuid.sourceforge.net/) Configuring after checkout -------------------------- Under linux, where you download the sources, there's no configure script to run. This is because it isn't a good practice to keep such scripts in a source control system. To create it, you need to run the following commands once, after you checkout the libcpuid sources from github: 1. run "libtoolize" 2. run "autoreconf --install" You need to have autoconf, automake and libtool installed. After that you can run "./configure" and "make" - this will build the library. "make dist" will create a tarball (with "configure" inside) with the sources.