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I don't want to close this yet, but VC++ Perl is probably enough of a corner case that the complexity of implementing this is not worth it.

This is actually an issue with an older version of `Archive::Tar`, after upgrading the tests passes.

Yes unfortunately I have run into this elsewhere too now, so I don't think we can rely on the use of -J. For now I am going to remove `Fetch::CurlCommand`...

This patch seems invasive for a `$^O eq 'msys'` which is an unofficial fork of Perl which as far as I can tell is only really useful for running autoconf.

I think this is close. Aside from a couple of very minor nits mentioned above, I would like to keep the original simple one-statement call to symlink on UNIX and...

Interesting. We do some work to get --prefix to work with autoconf (which "helpfully" requires msys paths) and with Strawberry (which requires windows paths): https://metacpan.org/source/PLICEASE/Alien-Build-1.85/lib/Alien/Build/Plugin/Build/Autoconf.pm#L48-53 But haven't ever extended that...

Thank you for reporting this, it is very helpful since it won't fail AB testing, but some downstream Aliens might. Can you try `2.82_01` and let me know? I can...

👍🏻 prod version on its way to CPAN now.