Sfx package isn't usable

Bug #372365 reported by Thomas Lété
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: p7zip

Hello !
I'm trying to create a sfx auto-extractable file wine p7zip but the file produced isn't valid...
Here is what I used (for example) :
7z a -sfx test.exe .bashrc

When I try to open it with windows, it never open and with wine, I get this error :
wine: could not load L"Z:\\home\\thomas\\test.exe": Bad EXE format for

I tried with 7zip for Windows under wine and it produces correct files...

I really need that program to compress some databases backups on my server...

Please help me :)

Thanks !

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Nicola Ferralis (feranick) wrote :

Still present in Maverick, although I get a different error message when running the exe in Windows:

"Program too big to fit in memory".

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