Re: TAP tests and symlinks on Windows

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 8:23 AM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:

>
> Another thing I spotted is that Win32::Symlink does not allow to
> detect properly if a path is a symlink using -l, causing one of the
> tests of pg_basebackup to fail when checking if a tablespace path has
> been updted.  It would be good to get more people to test this patch
> with different environments than mine.  I am also adding Andrew
> Dunstan in CC as the owner of the buildfarm animals running currently
> TAP tests for confirmation about the presence of Win32::Symlink
> there as I am afraid it would cause failures: drongo, fairywen,
> jacana and bowerbird.
>

This patch works on my Windows 10 / Visual Studio 2019 / Perl 5.30.2
machine.

Regards,

Juan José Santamaría Flecha