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test.pl hangs on Windows

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
perl

Research direction

Start by reproducing perl -Ilib ./scripts/yath test --default-search ./t --default-search ./t2 with the reported Strawberry Perl and Windows versions. Inspect the scripts/yath entry point and the t and t2 test directories while comparing behavior with a non-Windows run. Done means the command no longer hangs and produces test output on Windows.

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Description

Windows

because

perl -Ilib ./scripts/yath test --default-search ./t --default-search ./t2

hangs too without any output.
Test2-Harness 0.001032. Windows XP. Strawberry perl 5.24.0, 5.16.0.

Dominant language
Perl
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