The manifest is necessary in order for the linked binaries to be executed in a Windows 8 environment.
The manifest is added using a linker script so that this feature will be compiler-neutral. The resource
merging code in the linker means that if an application provides its own manifest then the default
manifest will be ignored.
* configure.in (all_emul_extra_binaries): New variable. Populated
by invoking configure.tgt.
(EMUL_EXTRA_BINARIES): New substitution.
* configure: Regenerate.
* configure.tgt (target_extra_binaries): New variable. Set to
default-manifest.o for Cygwin and MinGW targets.
* Makefile.am (EMUL_EXTRA_BINARIES): New variable. Initialised
by the configure script.
(ALL_EMUL_EXTRA_BINARIES): New variable.
(default-manifest.o): New rule to build the default manifest.
(ld_new_DEPENDENCIES): Add EMUL_EXTRA_BINARIES.
(install-data-local): Add EMUL_EXTRA_BINARIES.
* Makefile.in: Regenerate.
* ld.texinfo: Document default manifest support.
* emulparams/i386pe.sh (DEFAULT_MANIFEST): Define.
* emulparams/i386pep.sh (DEFAULT_MANIFEST): Define.
* emultempl/default-manifest.rc: New file.
* scripttempl/pe.sc (R_RSRC): Include DEFAULT_MANIFEST, if defined.
* scripttempl/pep.sc (R_RSRC): Likewise.
* ld-pe/longsecn-1.d: Allow for extra sections.
* ld-pe/longsecn-2.d: Likewise.
* ld-pe/longsecn.d: Likewise.
* ld-pe/secrel.d: Likewise.
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