`biber' binary from `darwinlegacy' doesn't work

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Sun Nov 10 20:37:30 CET 2019


On 2019-11-10 16:15, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>> Executing `biber' on my Mac OS X 10.7.5 box (Lion) from an up-to-date
>> TeXLive doesn't work.  [...]
> 
> I notice also that the `biber' binary is not stripped (contrary to the
> other TeXLive binaries), at least for `darwinlegacy'.  As distributed
> with TeXLive right now it has almost 20MByte; after stripping it only
> has 2.4MByte.

If i remember right, the biber binary is not stripped on any platform, 
as
it doesn't work anymore if it's stripped. All that perl deps are somehow
static in that blob, and would be stripped away.


Johannes


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