cygport: Don't strip packed perl binaries

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Fri Jul 20 19:32:00 GMT 2012


On 2012-07-20 13:49, Ken Brown wrote:
> TeX Live includes biber.exe, which is packaged as a stand-alone binary
> using the PAR::Packer module.  I've just discovered that the version
> I've been shipping with texlive doesn't function as a stand-alone binary
> because it's been stripped by cygport.  Is there a way that cygport can
> recognize such binaries and not strip them?

Is there some sort of magic number or something that can be used to 
detect that, as we do for OCaml bytecode?


Yaakov



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