Hi,
This question relates to a transient, ongoing problem that I have running 'make test' when building perl from source on Windows using mingw-w64 64-bit ports of gcc.
(Never any such problem with the mingw-w64 32-bit ports of gcc.)

In a nutshell, I often (but not always, depending upon the version of gcc) strike the problem that an IO-Compress test script will hang during 'make test'.
My only means of escape from this hang (AFAIK) is to hit Ctrl-C, which kills the entire 'make test' process - meaning that none of the other ensuing tests are run.

Currently, the offender is cpan/IO-Compress/t/105oneshot-rawdeflate.t when building 64-bit blead.
No problem with 'make test' when blead is built using 64-bit gcc-7.1.0, but that script hangs when blead is built with 64-bit gcc-7.2.0.

My question:
How do I re-arrange the source so that 'make test' will skip cpan/IO-Compress/t/105oneshot-rawdeflate.t, and yet run all of the other test scripts ?

I should add that AFAICS there's really no problem with either the actual hanging test script, or the perl that has been built.
These hangs only ever occur when running the script under 'make test'.

Cheers,
Rob

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