Commit: LD: Remove default-manifest.o from Cygwin/MingGW links
Reini Urban
reini@cpanel.net
Tue Apr 8 17:33:00 GMT 2014
On 04/08/2014 11:45 AM, Nick Clifton wrote:
> I am checking in the patch below to remove the inclusion of the
> default manifest in final links for the Cygwin and MinGW targets. The
> .rsrc section merging code has a bug which generates corrupt
> executables (16807) and the manifest support triggers other build-time
> and run-time problems.
>
> It has been decided to move the manifest itself into its own project,
> and to move the responsibility for including the manifest in a
> Cygwin/MinGW binary into gcc, so the PE linker scripts no longer need
> to specifically include it. I will be creating a follow up patch to
> remove the rest of the default manifest support code tomorrow, but I
> wanted to make sure that the linker is able to produce working
> binaries today.
Hi Nick,
Where can I read about this decision, and which "own project" in
particular? Just curious.
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