Mon Sep 26 09:51:06 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
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Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=118053 >
On 9/26/2016 6:17 AM, Roderich Schupp via RT wrote:
> <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=118053 >
>
> Am 2016-09-25 13:37:42, kbr...@cornell.edu schrieb:
>> 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.
>
> Sorry, no clue. If "biber --help" works, then basically PAR::Packer's job
> is done (though there might still be missing files etc, but typically that
> doesn't result in a hang). Does this hang occur also on the machine
> where you packed biber?
It did originally, but I just repacked biber (which a slight change),
and now I can't reproduce the problem anymore. The change was to remove
these two arguments from the invocation of pp:
--link=/usr/bin/cygssp-0.dll
--link=/usr/bin/cygcrypt-0.dll
The first is not needed because cygssp-0.dll is contained in a minimal
Cygwin install, and the second is not needed now that cygcrypt-0.dll is
embedded.
I'm not sure whether (or why) these changes made a difference, but in
any case the problem seems to be gone.
Thanks for your help.
Ken
