Sun Sep 25 13:37:42 2016: Request 118053 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by kbr...@cornell.edu
Queue: PAR-Packer
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #118053] Problem with packed perl archive for
biber on 64-bit Cygwin
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Requestors: kbr...@cornell.edu
Status: open
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=118053 >
On 9/25/2016 11:24 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 9/25/2016 3:06 AM, Roderich Schupp via RT wrote:
>> <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=118053 >
>>
>> On 2016-09-24 21:06:22, kbr...@cornell.edu wrote:
>>> On 9/23/2016 3:51 PM, Bugs in PAR-Packer via RT wrote:
>>> I understand a little better how the packed executable is supposed to
>>> work. First the embedded files are extracted, which are a perl
>>> interpreter (named biber) and cygperl5_24.dll in; it's then supposed
>>> to
>>> be possible to run the extracted biber, which will extract the rest of
>>> the files. Roderich, is this right?
>>
>> Your analysis is correct.
>>
>>> So it seems that the solution should be to add cygcrypt-0.dll as an
>>> embedded file.
>>
>> Yes. Try changing line 43 of myldr/embed_files.pl in the PAR::Packer
>> source to
>>
>> *is_system_lib = sub { shift =~
>> m{^/usr/bin/(?!cygcrypt\b)|^\Q$system_root\E/}i };
>>
>> i.e. /usr/bin/cygcrypt-0.dll is _not_ regarded as a "system library"
>> anymore.
>> Then re-build and install PAR:Packer and re-pack biber.
>>
>> Cheers, Roderich
>
> Thanks, that fixes it.
Actually, there's still one glitch. If I run biber with no arguments,
it unpacks itself and gives me a usage message. It also works fine if I
run 'biber --help'. But if I give it a file as an argument (e.g.,
'biber test.bcf') before the cache is created, it unpacks itself and
then hangs. After I kill it, I can rerun it with no problem.
David Carlisle, who is also testing, finds that it still hangs even
after the cache is created, but that may be a separate issue.
Do you have any idea what might cause this? For me it's just a glitch.
For David, it means that biber is unusable.
Thanks.
Ken
