Reporting problem requiring rebaseall to solve it.

2010-07-09 Thread Daniel Povey
Reporting problem and solution, but I would appreciate if cygwin experts could comment on the underlying reasons why this kind of thing happens and why rebaseall is needed. I have done a pretty clean install of the latest Cygwin and want to report a problem (and solution) so people will be able to

Vista problem / heuristic status elevation / manifests

2010-09-27 Thread Daniel Povey
When running cygwin on Windows 7, if you compile programs with names that include "update" and "install" and other keywords, they won't execute. It seems to relate to heuristic privelege elevation: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/onoj/archive/2007/04/20/windows-vista-uac-and-installer-detection.aspx A m