On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 06:34:24PM +0100, Ramsay Jones wrote: > On 24/10/2024 08:19, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > Having a quick squint at the failure, it '# failed 1 among 397 test(s)' > which was 'not ok 391 - correct handling of backslashes', which is the > only test marked with a '!CYGWIN' prerequisite! ;) So it seems that I > am doing something wrong, which results in the prerequisite not being > set. The CYGWIN prerequisite is set depending on whether or not `uname -s` contains "*CYGWIN*". Does your system maybe pick up the wrong uname(1) binary somehow? > I haven't debugged that yet, but I wanted to note the above improvement > having 'fixed' my python installation. (It doesn't look good for the > TEST package! :) ). Great, happy to hear that this is resolved now. Patrick