Andre Heinecke schrieb: > Hi, > I recently used Emerge at Home on my Windows 7 System with User Account > Control enabled. With every patch call i got a user account control checkbox. > When i researched the problem i landed on this blog post: > http://butnottoohard.blogspot.com/2010/01/windows-7-chronicles-gnu-patch-mtexe.html > > That describes how UAC checks for Keywords in applications and then "guesses" > that this application is going to need higher privileges. Also described at: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756960.aspx > > Since that behavior also appears with some KDE Windows programs > (kconf_update, > update_mime_types, and so on) and is really disturbing on new Windows Systems > i think it is an issue for us. > > To fix that i would propose that we add a "post install" step for the > affected > applications which would embed a manifest, as described in the links. > The big problem i see with that is that for the "intended" way you need the > manifest tool or a similar application to do that, and i do not want to get > Visual Studio / MS Windows SDK's. > > So does someone know a Free Software alternative to embed manifests files There are related tools in the kdewin context http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdesupport/kdewin/tools/mt/ mt is a replacement for the msvc mt tool, setuac is a special tool for setting uac access in an executable.
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