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diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32 index bb76bfc716..e9c56a0b64 100644 --- a/README.win32 +++ b/README.win32 @@ -275,6 +275,16 @@ contain a header file called "patchlevel.h". The latest Borland compiler option -VI- for backward (bugward) compatibility for using the old Borland search algorithm to locate header files. +If you run the tests on a FAT partition, you may see some failures for +C<link()> related tests (I<op/write.t>, I<op/stat.t> ...). Testing on +NTFS avoids these errors. + +Furthermore, you should make sure that during C<make test> you do not +have any GNU tool packages in your path: some toolkits like Unixutils +include some tools (C<type> for instance) which override the Windows +ones and makes tests fail. Remove them from your path while testing to +avoid these errors. + Please report any other failures as described under L<BUGS AND CAVEATS>. =head2 Installation of Perl on Win32 |