(SBP means "Strawberry Perl")

I am not thoroughly knowledgeable about the NTFS (my Windows 11 filesystem is NTFS), but it appears there's a portability gotcha in File::Copy::Recursive::Reduced, as illustrated in the console output below: 

"C:\berrybrew\instance\5.40.2_64\perl\bin\perl.exe" "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "undef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(0, 'blib\lib', 'blib\arch')" t/*.t
Unable to symlink C:\Users\somia\AppData\Local\Temp\_VXLTq6lRt\sym to target C:\Users\somia\AppData\Local\Temp\_VXLTq6lRt\old for testing: Operation not permitted at t/001-fcopy.t line 71.
# Looks like your test exited with 1 just after 9.
t/001-fcopy.t ....
Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
Failed 76/85 subtests
        (less 1 skipped subtest: 8 okay)
Unable to symlink at t/lib/Helper.pm line 179.
# Looks like your test exited with 1 just after 77.
t/002-dircopy.t ..
Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
Failed 38/115 subtests
        (less 1 skipped subtest: 76 okay)
Unable to symlink C:\Users\somia\AppData\Local\Temp\6cvtKrEDFd\sym to target C:\Users\somia\AppData\Local\Temp\6cvtKrEDFd\old for testing: Operation not permitted at t/003-rcopy.t line 78.
# Looks like your test exited with 1 just after 9.
t/003-rcopy.t ....
Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
Failed 179/188 subtests
        (less 1 skipped subtest: 8 okay)

I was not actually aiming to test or install File::Copy::Recursive::Reduced, but it was a dependency for Mouse.

As always, I will greatly appreciate any knowledge and insights. Thanks, good monks.

Dec 02, 2025 at 03:05 UTC

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In reply to Windows, SBP, 'File::Copy::Recursive::Reduced' fails its tests due to permissions by Intrepid

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