[perl #87858] make test hangs for me on Win32, MSVC++ 6.0

On Wed Apr 06 10:27:57 2011, jdb wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Apr 2011, Konovalov, Vadim (Vadim)** CTR ** (via RT) wrote:
> > 
> > I've downloaded latest perl snapshot, built it, and tried 'nmake test'
> > it hangs and never finishes, CPU is 0% busy,
> > I see following related output:
> > 
> [...]
> > ../cpan/Archive-Extract/t/01_Archive-Extract.t ....................
371/?
> 
> Happens to me only when I have Cygwin/bin on the PATH.  If you remove
> Cygwin everything works fine.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Jan
> 
> 


Jan Dubois provided a diagnosis of the OP's problem, and there has been
no further discussion in over two years.

Is there any reason we need to keep this ticket open?

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

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• [perl #87858] make test hangs for me on Win32, MSVC++ 6.0 by James E Keenan via RT
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