cygport: Don't strip packed perl binaries

[Ken Brown]

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".

Ken