cygport: Don't strip packed perl binaries

[Ken Brown]

On 7/20/2012 6:04 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> 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.

Confirmed.  Thanks.

Ken