cygwin 64 bit procps free.exe missing

Magnus Ihse Bursie magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com
Wed Sep 11 12:23:37 UTC 2013


On 2013-09-09 17:56, Pete Brunet wrote:
> As part of my effort to fix my build times I am trying to upgrade to the
> latest cygwin.  There is now a 32 bit and 64 bit installer (for
> 1.7.25).  However, I see that procps/free.exe is not in the 64 bit
> packages.  Does that mean that we can't use the 64 bit version?  Or do I
> need to install free separately and if so what is the process?

I had not heard about the 64-bit cygwin before. Interesting! I'll try to 
build on it and see if we need any tweaking for it.

However, I don't understand why you think the absence of free is a 
problem. We do not use it in the build, as far as I know..?

/Magnus



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