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Re: Compiled executables requiring admin rights - different results between MinGW host type
- From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:46:17 -0500
- Subject: Re: Compiled executables requiring admin rights - different results between MinGW host type
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- References: <E29840B52F804D728672875F0A8D534E at TKsamsung> <20140312184136 dot GB2547 at calimero dot vinschen dot de>
On 2014-03-12 13:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Our maintainers of the mingw-binutls and native binutils package just
have to update the packages to the latest from binutils git. Actually,
that reminds me...
JonY, ping? A couple of days ago, Nick Clifton updated binutils for
Windows so that every executable, which doesn't provide its own
manifest, will get a default manifest.
[snip]
So, if you have a bit of time, it would be nice to get new
mingw64-i686-binutils and mingw64-x86_64-binutils packages (as well
as a new Cygwin binutils, but cgf already knows about this).
Not to mention a new cygwin*-binutils for Cygwin and Fedora. cgf, are
you carrying any patches on top of today's 2.24.51 snapshot?
Once all the PE-target binutils are updated, I can rip out all the
manifest-generation code in cygport, right?
Every time a new Windows version is released, we will have to update the
default manifest in binutils, too, but that's the price we have to pay
for compatibility. Sigh.
A mass rebuild every few years wouldn't hurt; I'd say we're actually
overdue for one on x86.
Yaakov
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