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

[Werner LEMBERG]

>>> 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.

Aah, very good to know, thanks!  And I can confirm that biber works if
not stripped.  So sorry for the noise.

It would be great if biber could be protected somehow to be robust
against stripping...


    Werner