From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9647 invoked by alias); 26 Oct 2014 10:31:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 9636 invoked by uid 89); 26 Oct 2014 10:31:39 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: calimero.vinschen.de Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 10:31:28 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 781888E1434; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 11:31:26 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 10:31:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: windows-default-manifest-6.4-1 Message-ID: <20141026103126.GT20607@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="CPn8Wy5ME997YUMW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SW-Source: 2014-10/txt/msg00435.txt.bz2 --CPn8Wy5ME997YUMW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1331 On Oct 25 17:33, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > This package contains nothing but a default application compatibility > > manifest, which gets linked in by GCC by default, and which is supposed > > to claim compatibility with the latest Windows versions available at the > > time. > >=20 > > Adding such a manifest got necessary due to a change in Windows 8.1. On > > earlier OS versions, applications without manifest were treated as > > compatible with the current OS. Starting with Windows 8.1, an > > executable without manifest is treated as being compatible only with the > > oldest supported OS version of the OS compatibility layer. > >=20 > > That means, all applications without manifest are running in a Window > > Vista compatibility layer on Windows 8.1. This affects all Cygwin > > executables to date. By adding the default manifest to newly built > > packages, we're slowly getting to run our executables with full OS > > compatibility. >=20 > I'm sorry, can you please remind me: Is there anything I have to do to > include the new manifest? Or is it enough just to rebuild the executable > once this package is installed? Just rebuilding is sufficient. Corinna --=20 Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat --CPn8Wy5ME997YUMW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-length: 819 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUTM1+AAoJEPU2Bp2uRE+g6v8P/1ypSSUTlLI6e3v7/A5yHIEf QGA10ttujleo2TsSoWPTzq/LTK65Hd4S3h6T1YFQadytqpwjGfVBhu3X7g02bo8A 9Nmq/fASG0cAGdE2F8FuBVdd4dpqCrVUlruU8ZVE4ZKXfnbrGNDjPG33+21/VkG3 hzfQP/gJXgrOUJyDat71ocxEyyK4NX4Undz3LbTS2sEgnTuCCqMz+4SHBM/epFmy ogTBXCTkEE3tWJMQYjYFqua6/Pbpk6H4e+DTpIvht3QCgBcGGdHoeDtluiHsaRWE ce4f5CH2oLbdFVXTxoO+4EONvratVJScjkHtjY6WqX3j8IDnRpLHA5W8N2CGsF9N XAhl3ua0yv2BgQ8Rwdu97OX2qoO4PiMG1vcjPO6gIxr80Gm6yATVjDarEqKRSURF pbKsMFxaRsuDlGagJfnNTrqaKCSslBdBiwAis/YtJBg+vMRaDw9elblnzOe+fsrU 5T1Ml19kgBUx/DZ1LYfvtsTyrU8IlAd8HG7YnQ4vyvJqJnvj+iIEkA1hqcCtWKha qmdwyXX97BYp50wOkZWmn0Y13x+u1hvxfAy9k0y7vAgYGAl0sYt0Jj+TIi62wWhs D5nn5ExaF6MkbWUO9w5olNF38mO5tuJD/p1tDMzg3HtphrIOPtK/PA2uMA/uVsMX 4wBbKNoYqxP7UFvB63k5 =U1sQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CPn8Wy5ME997YUMW--