Dearest Monks, While brewing some perl, I noticed that the following test fails: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

BEGIN {
    unshift @INC, 't/lib/';
}
chdir 't';

use ExtUtils::Command;
use Test::More tests => 1;

open FILE, ">source" or die $!;
print FILE "stuff\n";
close FILE;

# Instead of sleeping to make the file time older
utime time - 900, time - 900, "source";

END { 1 while unlink "source", "dest"; }

# Win32 bug, cp wouldn't update mtime.
{
    local @ARGV = qw(source dest);
    cp();
    my $mtime = (stat("dest"))[9];
    my $now   = time;
   cmp_ok( abs($mtime - $now), '<=', 1, 'cp updated mtime' );
}

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yielding the following output: 
not ok 1 - cp updated mtime
#   Failed test 'cp updated mtime'
#   at cp.t line 27.
#     '199'
#         <=
#     '1'
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 1.

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I think it's clear that we're creating some file at some time in the past and then hoping for a cp into the present. Is there something funky that I should worry about? I'm running OpenSUSE 12.2. The test passes on OS X 10.6.8...

In reply to perlbrew install perl-5.17.3 =>not ok 1 - cp updated mtime by docdurdee

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