Hi Nick,

On Apr 23 10:41, Nicholas Clifton wrote:
> Hi Corinna,
> 
> >However, we know that the act of merging will currently result in broken
> >resources in the executable.  Wouldn't it be better to apply the above
> >patch only after the resource merge fix?
> 
> No.  Well not in my opinion. :-)  The reason is that this patch only
> makes a difference if the default manifest can be found in a library
> search path.  If there is none present then nothing happens.  So you
> can disable the (broken) merging of a default manifest file by
> simply not having it present.  Which should be the case for all
> current installations.
> 
> Plus - I am hoping to fix the resource merging problem soon.  (Any
> day now, honest).  So I would like to have the gcc patch in place
> for when that happens.

Ok, sounds fine to me.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
Red Hat

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