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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