From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>, 17176@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17176: 24.3.50; Problem with manifests on cygw32 build with new binutils
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 12:38:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <533C6751.6010208@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <533C5FEB.7090408@cornell.edu>
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On 04/02/2014 12:07 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> binutils has changed so that, on Cygwin, executables have a manifest
> built in by default. A consequence is that the cygw32 build of emacs
> produces an emacs.exe which, after it is stripped, won't run:
>
> $ ./emacs-stripped.exe
> -bash: ./emacs-stripped.exe: cannot execute binary file
>
> This is presumably caused by the fact that the cygw32 build already
> incorporates a manifest via nt/emacs.res. The following patch fixes
> this and does some related manifest-related cleanup:
Looks good to me. Thanks.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-02 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-02 19:07 bug#17176: 24.3.50; Problem with manifests on cygw32 build with new binutils Ken Brown
2014-04-02 19:38 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2014-04-02 20:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-02 20:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-02 22:19 ` Ken Brown
2014-04-03 2:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-03 12:50 ` Ken Brown
2014-04-03 19:12 ` Ken Brown
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