setup.exe now requires administrator privileges

[Shaddy Baddah]

Hi,

On Apr  3 21:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr  3 17:19, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
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>> Based on my limited understanding of .exe.manifest files, I believe the
>> problem should be related to this change to Cygwin setup:
>>
>> http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/setup/setup.exe.manifest?rev=2.4&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=cygwin-apps
>>
>> with changelog excerpt:
>>
>>
>> * setup.exe.manifest: Set processorArchitecture to "*".
>> Add explicit requestedExecutionLevel for 64-bit compatibility.
>>
>> Am I correct?
>
> Probably yes.  Yaakov, why is that necessary for 64 bit?  Is that
> documented somewhere?

I tried working around this by writing an in-place
cygpkg64.exe.manifest with <requestedExecutionLevel level="asInvoker"
uiAccess="false"/>, not really expecting it to work. And of course it
has not.

Is it possible to cross-build setup64.exe from 32 bit Cygwin? Is there
much mucking about to achieve it?

-- 
Regards,
Shaddy