G'day Rob,

I was curious about this, so I did a little digging. I don't have a v5.34.0 on MSWin available so I can't do any direct testing.

"Try building Path::Class on Windows and watch it pass ..."

In the "mswin32" column of the "CPAN Testers Matrix: Path-Class 0.37", there are only passes from v5.12.2 to v5.29.3 then, a lone test for v5.34.0 which failed (see "Report for Path-Class-0.37"). The problem here is very similar to what you report for 'make test': 

Output from 'C:\perl-5.34.0\bin\perl.exe ./Build test':

Can't call method "relative" on an undefined value at C:\Users\jndt\Ap
+pData\Local\.cpan\build\Path-Class-0.37-0\blib\lib/Path/Class/Entity.
+pm line 71.
t/01-basic.t .......... 
Dubious, test returned 22 (wstat 5632, 0x1600)
Failed 28/78 subtests

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The line numbers are different: 71 (here) vs. 76 (yours) — I don't know if that's significant.

The distribution provides both a Makefile.PL and a Build.PL. The INSTALL file only references perl Build.PL followed by various ./Build commands (no make anywhere). I had a look at a few reports, all had ./Build test — again, I don't know if that's significant.

The last update to Path-Class was six years ago (2016). So, it would seem more likely the "bug" is due to a Perl change (v5.34.0 was released in 2021, a little over a year ago) or something in Strawberry/ActivePerl/etc.

I don't know if any of that helps. Maybe some avenues for further investigation.

I've no idea if overriding $^O is legitimate. I had a think about it but drew a blank.

— Ken

In reply to Re: Is it ever legitimate to override $^O ? by kcott
in thread Is it ever legitimate to override $^O ? by syphilis

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