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I had not found the test failure listed below yet on GitHub Issues. Has anyone else seen the below?

I had downloaded perl 5.38 from CPAN on RockyLinux 8.8 host:

uname -a
Linux <HOST> 4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 30 22:15:39 U
+TC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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Four tests related to opening/creating a file had failed (3 are of same kind in cpan directory); command used in zsh:

./Configure -des -Dprefix='/some/dir/perl' \
  -Dusesitecustomize -Duserelocatableinc \
&& make \
&& make test \
&& make install
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Command used to run each failed test after build in t directory was

../perl -I../lib harness <test-file>
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Failing tests:

../cpan/ExtUtils-Install/t/Packlist.t .. 1/35
#   Failed test 'write() should croak on open failure'
#   at t/Packlist.t line 92.
#                   ''
#     doesn't match '(?^:Can't open file)'
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 35.
../cpan/ExtUtils-Install/t/Packlist.t .. Dubious, test returned 1 (wst
+at 256, 0x100)
Failed 1/35 subtests

../cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/t/Mkbootstrap.t .. 1/18
#   Failed test 'should die given bad filename'
#   at t/Mkbootstrap.t line 84.
#                   ''
#     doesn't match '(?^:Unable to open dasboot\.bs)'
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 18.
../cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/t/Mkbootstrap.t .. Dubious, test returned 1
+ (wstat 256, 0x100)
Failed 1/18 subtests

../cpan/ExtUtils-Manifest/t/Manifest.t .. 45/98
#   Failed test 'maniadd() dies if it can't open the MANIFEST'
#   at t/Manifest.t line 468.
#                   ''
#     doesn't match '(?^:^maniadd\(\)\ could\ not\ open\ MANIFEST\:)'
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 98.
../cpan/ExtUtils-Manifest/t/Manifest.t .. Dubious, test returned 1 (ws
+tat 256, 0x100)
Failed 1/98 subtests


- cpan/IO-Compress/t/cz-14gzopen.t : not-undef is returned.

../perl -I../lib harness ../cpan/IO-Compress/t/cz-14gzopen.t
../cpan/IO-Compress/t/cz-14gzopen.t .. 89/264
#   Failed test '  gzopen returns undef (returned: <Compress::Zlib::gz
+File=ARRAY(0x1c635a8)>)'
#   at t/cz-14gzopen.t line 506.

#   Failed test '  gzerrno ok'
#   at t/cz-14gzopen.t line 507.
#  gzerrno 0
# Looks like you failed 2 tests of 264.
../cpan/IO-Compress/t/cz-14gzopen.t .. Dubious, test returned 2 (wstat
+ 512, 0x200)
Failed 2/264 subtests
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Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 38 subversion 0) configuration
+:

  Platform:
    osname=linux
    osvers=4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.x86_64
    archname=x86_64-linux
    uname='linux stefanh.ifa.hawaii.edu 4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.x86_64 #
+1 smp tue may 30 22:15:39 utc 2023 x86_64 x8>
    config_args='-des -Dprefix=/some/dir/perl -Dusesitecustomize -Duse
+relocatableinc'
    hint=recommended
    useposix=true
    d_sigaction=define
    useithreads=undef
    usemultiplicity=undef
    use64bitint=define
    use64bitall=define
    uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n
    default_inc_excludes_dot=define
  Compiler:
    cc='cc'
    ccflags ='-fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector-str
+ong -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE>
    optimize='-O2'
    cppflags='-fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector-str
+ong -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion=''
    gccversion='8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-18)'
    gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4
    longsize=8
    ptrsize=8
    doublesize=8
    byteorder=12345678
    doublekind=3
    d_longlong=define
    longlongsize=8
    d_longdbl=define
    longdblsize=16
    longdblkind=3
    ivtype='long'
    ivsize=8
    nvtype='double'
    nvsize=8
    Off_t='off_t'
    lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8
    prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc'
    ldflags =' -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib /usr/lib64 /usr/local/lib64
    libs=-lpthread -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    perllibs=-lpthread -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    libc=libc-2.28.so
    so=so
    useshrplib=false
    libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version='2.28'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs
    dlext=so
    d_dlsymun=undef
    ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC'
    lddlflags='-shared -O2 -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector-strong'

Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Compile-time options:
    HAS_LONG_DOUBLE
    HAS_STRTOLD
    HAS_TIMES
    PERLIO_LAYERS
    PERL_COPY_ON_WRITE
    PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
    PERL_HASH_FUNC_SIPHASH13
    PERL_HASH_USE_SBOX32
    PERL_MALLOC_WRAP
    PERL_OP_PARENT
    PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV
    PERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV
    USE_64_BIT_ALL
    USE_64_BIT_INT
    USE_LARGE_FILES
    USE_LOCALE
    USE_LOCALE_COLLATE
    USE_LOCALE_CTYPE
    USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC
    USE_LOCALE_TIME
    USE_PERLIO
    USE_PERL_ATOF
    USE_SITECUSTOMIZE
  Built under linux
  Compiled at Jul 24 2023 14:15:13
  @INC:
    ../lib
    /some/dir/download/lib/site_perl/5.38.0/x86_64-linux
    /some/dir/download/lib/site_perl/5.38.0
    /some/dir/download/lib/5.38.0/x86_64-linux
    /some/dir/download/lib/5.38.0
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In reply to perl 5.38 - File open test failures on RockyLinux 8.8 by Anonymous Monk

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