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

Mon Sep 26 09:51:06 2016: Request 118053 was acted upon.
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     Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #118053] Problem with packed perl archive for biber on 64-bit Cygwin
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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, [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?

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