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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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