[Bug ld/16790] [cygwin|mingw] ld -v creates a.exe

[corinna at vinschen dot de]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16790

--- Comment #9 from Corinna Vinschen <corinna at vinschen dot de> ---
(In reply to Corinna Vinschen from comment #8)
> (In reply to Nick Clifton from comment #7)
> > > 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.

I created the project, so we can take the next steps:

  cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:/cvs/cygwin-apps co
windows-default-manifest


Corinna

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