[rt.cpan.org #118053] Problem with packed perl archive for biber on 64-bit Cygwin

Mon Sep 26 06:16:57 2016: Request 118053 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by RSCHUPP
       Queue: PAR-Packer
     Subject: Problem with packed perl archive for biber on 64-bit Cygwin
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  Requestors: [email protected]
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 Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=118053 >


Am 2016-09-25 13:37:42, [email protected] 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?

Cheers, Roderich