Cygwin Test Errors

[jmaslak]

I'm running Win10 with basically standard configuration. Cygwin is recent install with defaults (other than package selection) for x86-64. I get these errors on File::Path when I try to install under either Perl 5.22.1 or 5.24.0-RC1. These errors also keep perlbrew from being able to cleanly builld a perl on Cygwin. All errors are in t/Path.t.

#   Failed test 'create a new directory with chmod 56 (0070)'
#   at t/Path.t line 479.
#          got: '504'
#     expected: '56'

#   Failed test 'create a new directory with chmod 24 (0030)'
#   at t/Path.t line 479.
#          got: '216'
#     expected: '24'

#   Failed test 'create a new directory with chmod 8 (0010)'
#   at t/Path.t line 479.
#          got: '72'
#     expected: '8'

#   Failed test 'create a new directory with chmod 249 (0371)'
#   at t/Path.t line 479.
#          got: '505'
#     expected: '249'

#   Failed test 'create a new directory with chmod 123 (0173)'
#   at t/Path.t line 479.
#          got: '507'
#     expected: '123'

#   Failed test 'create a new directory with chmod 95 (0137)'
#   at t/Path.t line 479.
#          got: '223'
#     expected: '95'
# Looks like you failed 6 tests of 127.
t/Path.t ........
Dubious, test returned 6 (wstat 1536, 0x600)
Failed 6/127 subtests

If it helps, Cygwin does some odd stuff to file permissions. Here's a sample:

$ echo test >test.txt
$ ls -l test.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 jmasl jmasl 5 Apr 21 21:04 test.txt
$ chmod 077 test.txt
$ ls -l test.txt
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jmasl jmasl 5 Apr 21 21:04 test.txt

[rpcme]

Normally these issues are reported to the Cygwin ml. They are aware of issues even building Perl itself - especially 5.16 and 5.18.

Have you worked this through that list yet? https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/