When testing Path::Tiny including the fix in #268 for realpath, I get:
>perl Makefile.PL
Generating a gmake-style Makefile
Writing Makefile for Path::Tiny
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
>gmake
cp p.pl blib\lib\Path\p.pl
cp lib/Path/Tiny.pm blib\lib\Path\Tiny.pm
C:\Users\hakon\perl\github\Path-Tiny>gmake test
"C:\perl-debug\bin\perl.exe" "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "undef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(0, 'blib\lib', 'blib\arch')" t/*.t
t/basename.t ...................... ok
t/basic.t ......................... ok
t/children.t ...................... ok
t/chmod.t ......................... ok
t/digest.t ........................ ok
t/exception.t ..................... ok
t/exports.t ....................... ok
t/filesystem.t .................... 37/?
# Failed test 'lstat'
# at t/filesystem.t line 420.
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 104.
t/filesystem.t .................... Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
Failed 1/104 subtests
t/has_same_bytes.t ................ ok
t/input_output.t .................. ok
t/input_output_no_PU_UU.t ......... ok
t/input_output_no_UU.t ............ ok
t/locking.t ....................... ok
[...]
More information about the failed test:
>perl -Ilib t\filesystem.t
ok 1 - Got a filename via tmpnam()
[...]
ok 80 - copy()
ok 81 - touch can chain
not ok 82 - lstat
# Failed test 'lstat'
# at t\filesystem.t line 420.
ok 83 - realpath resolves symlinks
ok 84 - remove symbolic link
[...]
I am trying to install
Path::Tiny
on Windows 11 using a debug version of perl 5.37.6 using MinGW-w64 and gcc 11.3.0 from https://winlibs.com/ (using the MSVCRT runtime library), more information here: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/20395.When testing
Path::Tiny
including the fix in #268 for realpath, I get:More information about the failed test:
The problem is most likely that
lstat->size
returns zero on windows, see https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/20476 for more information. A fix has been proposed here: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/20500 but has currently not been merged into blead.