On Mar 31 21:56, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > >> "Windows 8.1 N with Bing" gets reported as "Windows 8.1 China" (probably > >> renamed by MS after the fact). > > Marketing wins this round apparently. All documentation I can find > still says "country specific Windows variant" and suggests "China" as > the variant name to go with that. Yet clearly Windows itself knows it > has been named "N with Bing". > > >> It seems that either it would need to be linked statically or the > >> library provided in a place where it can be found. > > > > I *do* take patches... > > > > ...and, yes, we should move this and the other cygwin-apps projects to > > git as well. If there wouldn't be these lame time constraints like, > > say, onmly 24 hours a day. > > I just realized I still have the CVS checkout from the script fixes > anyway. A quick look doesn't reveal any obvious reason why this > executable would be linked against libwinpthread… and indeed if I > compile it on Cygwin it doesn't. So, no patch required, but a rebuild > is in order. You might have had LDFLAGS or CFLAGS set while building > the package?
I'm not doing anything special. I'm cross-building on Fedora and have
the mingw{32,64}-winpthreads packages installed. That could be the
reason. But why it links against lib*any*pthread beats me, given the
simplicity and non-threadiness of the tool.
> There's another fix that should probably go into the scripts: The
> service users should get SeDenyInteractiveLogonRight (they already have
> SeDenyRemoteLogonRight). At least on my Windows7 Pro/64bit laptop the
> accounts show up on the login screen otherwise.
Still, https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PGA? Really, I mean it.
Corinna
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