If I compile perl with -Dmksymlinks, test 89 of ../lib/Archive/Tar/t/02_methods.t fails. The change below fixes it. It's actually a partial revert of change 31243. Jos, does it look good to you ? It makes sense to me. No other test fails due to that. --- /tmp/tmp.10199.33 2007-05-24 11:12:50.000000000 +0200 +++ /home/rafael/p4blead/lib/Archive/Tar/File.pm 2007-05-24 11:11:36.000000000 +0200 @@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ sub _new_from_file { my $type = __PACKAGE__->_filetype($path); my $data = ''; - unless ($type == DIR || $type == SYMLINK) { + unless ($type == DIR) { my $fh = IO::File->new; $fh->open($path) or return;