MAKE through Cygwin overloads memory (too many processes)

Question

What I'm trying to do is install SIP 4.14.7 through Cygwin using the make command. I'm running Python version 3.3.2 (with Python added to the PATH) on a Windows 7 x64 SP1 machine with 4GB RAM and an Intel Core 2 Duo. Since what I'm doing is from within the Cygwin terminal, I'll avoid using the Win32 path format.

Following the installation instructions provided with sip-4.14.7.zip, here is what I've done:

1. Uncompressed the .zip into /c/python33/SIP/
2. Launched the Cygwin terminal and went to the /cygdrive/c/python33/SIP/ folder
3. Ran python configure.py (No options since I was fine with the default settings)
4. Ran make install

As far as I can tell, I followed the instructions as I should have, but obviously I'm not doing something right here.

Here's what happens:SCREENSHOT

The number of make.exe processes go up to about 1800 before Windows gets too low on memory and the whole thing reverses itself until there are no more 'make.exe' processes running as shown here: SCREENSHOT2

I've Googled this and searched around here on stackoverflow.com but couldn't find anything related to this particular issue. It seems that unless using the -j option the MAKE command should only process one job at a time. I've also tried using the -l option thinking it would limit the processes unless enough memory was available, but the results were the same.

I tried to provide as much detail as possible, but if there is any more information that I should post to help diagnose this issue, I'd be glad to provide it. Otherwise, any suggestions here would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

The latest version of Cygwin includes the PyQT4 package (in All->Python within Setup.exe). It's python-pyqt4 and python3-pyqt4. If you are trying to live in Cygwin, I'd install that version into Cygwin and use it. No make required from the looks of it.