Cygwin and Vista - missing manifest files

Benoit Miller benoit.miller@gmail.com
Sun Feb 18 16:58:00 GMT 2007


A while ago there was a discussion (in the "Vista & coreutils" thread) 
that suggested adding an install.exe.manifest file to solve the UAC 
issues with Vista.

 From a Cygwin 1.5.24-2 install, two more manifest files are needed: one 
for install-info.exe and (more importantly) one for patch.exe, otherwise 
you get a "permission denied" error when launching either of them.

The required manifest is identical to the one already provided for 
/bin/install.exe, just update the "name" field to point to the new 
executable.

If you are adding the manifest to an existing installation, you may need 
to touch the .exe files after creating the manifests as Vista caches 
this metadata.

Thanks,
Ben.

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