diff --git a/libqt5-qtwebengine.changes b/libqt5-qtwebengine.changes
index f0c7040..5fdf83f 100644
--- a/libqt5-qtwebengine.changes
+++ b/libqt5-qtwebengine.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Feb  2 10:43:48 UTC 2018 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Eliminate build dependency on procps: we only used it to run
+  'free', in order to find out how much RAM we have available. We
+  can get this information directly from the kernel, from
+  /proc/meminfo.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Jan 12 19:10:53 UTC 2018 - fabian@ritter-vogt.de
 
diff --git a/libqt5-qtwebengine.spec b/libqt5-qtwebengine.spec
index 7aff20a..974f07d 100644
--- a/libqt5-qtwebengine.spec
+++ b/libqt5-qtwebengine.spec
@@ -87,7 +87,6 @@ BuildRequires:  libgcrypt-devel
 BuildRequires:  libicu-devel
 BuildRequires:  libjpeg-devel
 BuildRequires:  libpng-devel
-BuildRequires:  procps
 BuildRequires:  libqt5-qtbase-private-headers-devel >= %{version}
 BuildRequires:  libqt5-qtdeclarative-private-headers-devel >= %{version}
 BuildRequires:  libqt5-qttools-private-headers-devel >= %{version}
@@ -282,12 +281,12 @@ export RPM_OPT_FLAGS=${RPM_OPT_FLAGS/-g / }
 # processes based on the available memory
 makeproc="%{?jobs:%{jobs}}"
 echo "Available memory:"
-free
+cat /proc/meminfo
 echo "System limits:"
 ulimit -a
 if test -n "$makeproc" -a "$makeproc" -gt 1 ; then
-    mem_per_process=1300
-    max_mem=`LANG=C free -t -m | sed -n "s|^Mem: *\([0-9]*\).*$|\1|p"`
+    mem_per_process=1300000
+    max_mem=$(awk '/MemTotal/ { print $2 }' /proc/meminfo)
     max_jobs="$(($max_mem / $mem_per_process))"
     test "$makeproc" -gt "$max_jobs" && makeproc="$max_jobs" && echo "Warning: Reducing number of jobs to $max_jobs because of memory limits"
     test "$makeproc" -le 0 && makeproc=1 && echo "Warning: Do not use the parallel build at all becuse of memory limits"