Re: Reviving: [PATCH] [cygwin|mingw] Create UAC manifest files.

[Olly Betts]

On 2010-06-18, Charles Wilson <address@hidden> wrote:
>     b3) For these reasons, it's probably best if the package
>         maintainer also provides rules for "embedding" the manifest
>         in binary form into the "real" exe.  How these rules will
>         deal with the whole lt-*.exe naming problem (recompiling the
>         manifest object to specify the "true" exe name, and then
>         relinking, on libtool --mode=install?) is an open question.

Would it work to put the uninstalled executable in a different directory
(a subdirectory or perhaps a sibling directory of .libs) so it could
have the same name, rather than having the lt- prefix?

That would avoid having to adjust the manifest, and also would reduce
other issues the current approach causes, for example with programs which
change behaviour depending on what name they find in argv[0].

Cheers,
    Olly