From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
Cc: 17176@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17176: 24.3.50; Problem with manifests on cygw32 build with new binutils
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 23:29:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d2gzbhlc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <533C5FEB.7090408@cornell.edu>
> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 15:07:23 -0400
> From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
>
> 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.
Are you sure this is the cause? If so, can you explain how stripping
makes this problem rear its head? What do you see in the .rsrc
section in the unstripped and in stripped emacs.exe?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-02 20:29 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
2014-04-02 20:29 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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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