Various updates, mainly to the Windows port, from Eli Zaretskii and

Markus Maurhart.

tests/scripts/options/symlinks

@@ -5,7 +5,12 @@ $description = "Test the -L option.";
 $details = "Verify that symlink handling with and without -L works properly.";
 
 # Only run these tests if the system sypports symlinks
-if (eval { symlink("",""); 1 }) {
+
+# Apparently the Windows port of Perl reports that it does support symlinks
+# (in that the symlink() function doesn't fail) but it really doesn't, so
+# check for it explicitly.
+
+if ($port_type ne 'W32' && eval { symlink("",""); 1 }) {
 
   # Set up a symlink sym -> dep
   # We'll make both dep and targ older than sym