cygport: Don't strip packed perl binaries

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

On 2012-07-20 16:11, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 7/20/2012 3:32 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>> 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?
>
> According to
> \http://search.cpan.org/~rschupp/PAR-1.005/lib/PAR/Tutorial.pod (under
> "Anatomy of a Self-Contained PAR executable"), every such file ends with
> the 8-byte string "\012PAR.pm\012".

Thanks for the hint.  I committed a fix to cygport git.


Yaakov