Merge pull request #217 from JonathonReinhart/216-fix-crash-with-dash-l

Fix bug causing crash when -l is used with a library needing to be modified by staticx

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,7 +4,11 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 ### Changed
-- Change --debug option to appear in CLI help output
+- Change `--debug` option to appear in CLI help output
+
+### Fixed
+- Fix bug sometimes causing a crash when `-l` is used ([#217])
+
 
 ## [0.13.5] - 2021-10-26
 ### Fixed
@@ -293,3 +297,4 @@ Initial release
 [#204]: https://github.com/JonathonReinhart/staticx/pull/204
 [#208]: https://github.com/JonathonReinhart/staticx/pull/208
 [#210]: https://github.com/JonathonReinhart/staticx/pull/210
+[#217]: https://github.com/JonathonReinhart/staticx/pull/217

staticx/api.py

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ def __init__(self, prog, strip=False, compress=True, debug=False, cleanup=True):
         # Temporary output file (bootloader copy)
         self.tmpoutput = None
         self.tmpprog = None
-        self.tmpdir = None
+        self.tmpdir = mkdtemp(prefix='staticx-archive-')
 
         f = NamedTemporaryFile(prefix='staticx-archive-', suffix='.tar')
         self.sxar = SxArchive(fileobj=f, mode='w', compress=self.compress)
@@ -130,7 +130,6 @@ def generate(self, output):
 
 
         # Build the archive to be appended
-        self.tmpdir = mkdtemp(prefix='staticx-archive-')
         with self.sxar as ar:
             run_hooks(self)