Parallel make hangs on 64-bit Cygwin

Hi, When trying to build gcc using make with -j N, I'm finding that make will hang on 64-bit Cygwin. I don't see this problem with 32-bit Cygwin on the same PC. When it hangs, there are N make processes reported in task manager that are using 0% CPU, that appear to be waiting for N sh.exe progr

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Re: Cygwin 3.4.3 and 3.5.0... hangs in make, top, procps, ls /proc/PID/...

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Re: Parallel make hangs on 64-bit Cygwin

On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 3:34 PM Jon Beniston via Cygwin wrote: > Hi, Hi Jon > When trying to build gcc using make with -j N, I'm finding that make will > hang on 64-bit Cygwin. I don't see this problem with 32-bit Cygwin on the > same PC. When it hangs, there are N make processes reported in task