MSYS symlink

[john-peterson]

Problem

uname -a; echo $MSYSTEM
MSYS_NT-6.1 PC 1.0.18(0.48/3/2) 2012-11-21 22:34 i686 Msys
MSYS

git clone git://github.com/petdance/file-next.git && cd file-next
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test

/bin/perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/00-load.........# Testing File::Next 1.12, Perl 5.008008, /bin/perl.exe
t/00-load.........ok
t/api.............ok
t/basic...........ok
t/dirs............ok
t/dot.............ok
t/everything......ok
t/follow..........ok 1/6
#   Failed test 'NO_FOLLOW'
#   at t/follow.t line 73.
#     Structures begin differing at:
#          $got->[12] = 't/swamp/linkdir/a1'
#     $expected->[12] = 't/swamp/parrot.pir'
t/follow..........NOK 4# Looks like you failed 1 test of 6.

Problem description

In MSYS

mkdir -p a; touch a/a1 a/a2

this

ln -s a linkdir

is equivalent to

cp -r a linkdir

[petdance]

I don't understand the problem. What does "MSYS symlink" mean?