X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=THmEha1gDeR8qfaUOsU13mlhUYzdVfFVr8Av0ICauDi g+La6PcAKNKwhm+CTwpjHPYhJpoZkh1qXVBZMwVlCbgYvTlEyCoGnoMQmpbLv08n R0nBCDn5DkU2TGAHmQJhh+Upf0fX1iQ7anQN5TAKi0MNmKUYIsUjaOlOh0nOU1F4 = DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=O8n6yNYAekZebOGThgAeEfgQtCI=; b=XIJgf7fTqgwmshXdb ohU+LDI39GHWwcV6OPtVx21A6t5BKnPat61/V3bt1IHyYaWHVnL56OUC8J3hpJKP oK8I0KjgdYzu6+KU7W7l+k08SVudJaxjVzln6pMl3mnbsRyY2j9/g/jydi/Uhc+8 m++AgRDW0+yOKgVDF+/Ps/7esM= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-ie0-f171.google.com X-Received: by 10.50.56.109 with SMTP id z13mr3228702igp.6.1394732774687; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 10:46:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5321EEE9.6050009@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:46:17 -0500 From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Compiled executables requiring admin rights - different results between MinGW host type References: <20140312184136 DOT GB2547 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> In-Reply-To: <20140312184136.GB2547@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple