steve@spek ~/devel $ hg clone https://spek@bitbucket.org/spek/devel-examine-subs

...

steve@spek ~/devel $ cd devel-examine-subs/

steve@spek ~/devel/devel-examine-subs $ mv t apps

steve@spek ~/devel/devel-examine-subs $ vi Makefile.PL 

# added the said symlink code here

steve@spek ~/devel/devel-examine-subs $ perl Makefile.PL

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Generating a Unix-style Makefile
Writing Makefile for Devel::Examine::Subs
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json

# make test

steve@spek ~/devel/devel-examine-subs $ make && make test

cp lib/Devel/Examine/Subs/Preprocessor.pm blib/lib/Devel/Examine/Subs/Preprocessor.pm
cp lib/Devel/Examine/Subs/Engine.pm blib/lib/Devel/Examine/Subs/Engine.pm
cp lib/Devel/Examine/Subs/Sub.pm blib/lib/Devel/Examine/Subs/Sub.pm
cp lib/Devel/Examine/Subs.pm blib/lib/Devel/Examine/Subs.pm
cp lib/Devel/Examine/Subs/Prefilter.pm blib/lib/Devel/Examine/Subs/Prefilter.pm
Manifying 4 pod documents
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 "/usr/bin/perl" "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "undef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/00-load.t ................................ 1/20 # Testing Devel::Examine::Subs 1.28, Perl 5.022000, /usr/bin/perl
t/00-load.t ................................ ok     
t/01-internal.t ............................ ok   
t/02-has.t ................................. 1/26 ^Cmake: *** [test_dynamic] Interrupt

# seems to work