Skip new content-timestamp-symlink test on win32

Signed-off-by: Mats Wichmann <mats@linux.com>

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/test/Decider/content-timestamp-symlink.py b/test/Decider/content-timestamp-symlink.py
index b448709..4e0c3b0 100644
--- a/test/Decider/content-timestamp-symlink.py
+++ b/test/Decider/content-timestamp-symlink.py
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ _python_ = TestSCons._python_
 
 test = TestSCons.TestSCons()
 
+if not test.platform_has_symlink():
+    test.skip_test('Symbolic links not reliably available on this platform, skipping test.\n')
+
 # a dummy "compiler" for the builder
 test.write('build.py', r"""
 import sys
diff --git a/testing/framework/TestSCons.py b/testing/framework/TestSCons.py
index 079e17d..ec82102 100644
--- a/testing/framework/TestSCons.py
+++ b/testing/framework/TestSCons.py
@@ -1665,7 +1665,12 @@ else:
             alt_cpp_suffix = '.C'
         return alt_cpp_suffix
 
-    def platform_has_symlink(self):
+    def platform_has_symlink(self) -> bool:
+        """Retun an indication of whether symlink tests should be run.
+
+        Despite the name, we really mean "are they reliably usable"
+        rather than "do they exist" - basically the Windows case.
+        """
         if not hasattr(os, 'symlink') or sys.platform == 'win32':
             return False
         else: