Hello Nick, 2014-04-23 10:53 GMT+02:00 Nick Clifton <ni...@redhat.com>: > Hi Guys, > > Please could I have permission to apply the patch below ? Ideally for > both mainline and the 4.9 branch. > > The patch adds a file called "default-manifest.o" to the end of a > final link command line for the Cygwin and MinGW targets. The file is > only added if it can be found in the library search path(s), so the > patch will have no effect if the file does not exist. > > The default manifest file contains a resource section (.rsrc) holding > information necessary for the binary to be run under Windows 8. It is > placed last on the linker command line so that a user provided > manifest, if there is one, will take precedence over the default > manifest. > > The manifest used to be automatically added by the linker, but this > proved to be problematic as the linker is not good at selectively > inserting binaries. The manifest itself is provided by a separate > project which will have to become a new dependency for the Cygwin and > MinGW projects. > > Cheers > Nick
Well, I am a bit concerned about the position of the manifest-object. What will actually happen, if user specifies an user-specific manifest-object. Will the default one, if present, be ignored, or will it be still linked? Cheers, Kai
