Emerge and User Account Control

[Ralf Habacker]

Andre Heinecke schrieb:
> Hi,
> I recently used Emerge at Home on my Windows 7 System with User Account 
> Control enabled. With every patch call i got a user account control checkbox. 
> When i researched the problem i landed on this blog post:
> http://butnottoohard.blogspot.com/2010/01/windows-7-chronicles-gnu-patch-mtexe.html
>
> That describes how UAC checks for Keywords in applications and then "guesses" 
> that this application is going to need higher privileges. Also described at:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756960.aspx
>
> Since that behavior also appears with some KDE Windows programs (kconf_update, 
> update_mime_types, and so on) and is really disturbing on new Windows Systems 
> i think it is an issue for us. 
>
> To fix that i would propose that we add a "post install" step for the affected 
> applications which would embed a manifest, as described in the links. 
> The big problem i see with that is that for the "intended" way you need the 
> manifest tool or a similar application to do that, and i do not want  to get 
> Visual Studio / MS Windows SDK's.
>
> So does someone know a Free Software alternative to embed manifests files 
There are related tools in the kdewin context 
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdesupport/kdewin/tools/mt/
mt is a replacement for the msvc mt tool, setuac is a special tool for 
setting  uac access in an executable.

Regards
 Ralf