https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16790
--- Comment #8 from Corinna Vinschen <corinna at vinschen dot de> ---
(In reply to Nick Clifton from comment #7)
Hi Nick,
> Hi Corinna,
>
> > After some discussion with Jon_Y and Yaakov on IRC, I'm pretty much ok
> > with moving the default-manifest handling to GCC.
>
> Excellent! :-)
>
> > I'm just wondering if the default-manifest shouldn't then be made
> > into its own package, independent of binutils and GCC, so that we
> > can update the default manifest if a new Windows comes out, without
> > having to update binutils or GCC packages as well.
>
> I guess that this could happen, Although maybe it could become part of
> the Cygwin and MinGW projects instead ? I assume that they are the only
> ones that need the default manifest. Hmm, that does mean keeping two
> copies of the manifest in sync in different projects, which is not
> ideal. So maybe a separate project would be better. How does one go
> about creating a new project anyway ?
Easy: I'll create a new cygwin-apps project in the cygwin-apps CVS
repo on sourceware called "windows-default-manifest" od some
such, and I will create a Cygwin package from there. I put
it under a freeware license so everybody who wants to pick it
up is free to do so. I'll keep it up-to-date as far as new
Windows version come along.
> > If we do that, GCC would have to handle three situations:
> >
> > - The default-manifest.o file doesn't exist in the search path.
> > Don't even try to add it to the command line.
>
> Should GCC issue a warning in this case. (Assuming that it would want
> to add the default manifest to the linker command line if it could be
> found).
>From my point of view, no warning should be issued. It's not a crucial
problem at all. If it's missing, the executable still works, usually.
> > - The manifest file exists, the -shared option is given.
> > Don't add default-manifest.o to the command line.
> >
> > - The manifest file exists, the -shared option is not given.
> > Append default-manifest.o to the command line.
> >
> > Will that work?
>
> Yes. Should be quite straightforward.
Sounds good!
Thanks,
Corinna
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