Paul, Were these two tests run successfully on Unix? I needed the following patch to get them to run on MS-Windows, otherwise the test suite insisted that 'load' is not in .FEATURES, although it definitely is:
--- scripts/features/load~0 2020-01-03 09:11:27.000000000 +0200 +++ scripts/features/load 2020-01-26 10:45:53.927718000 +0200 @@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ $description = "Test the load operator." $details = "Test dynamic loading of modules."; # Don't do anything if this system doesn't support "load" -exists $FEATURES{load} or return -1; +if (!exists($FEATURES{load})) { + return -1; +} I don't speak Perl, so maybe I'm missing something silly here. Also, the fact that the "load" command requires a full file name, including the extension, gets in the way of portable Makefiles, because you need foo.so on Unix, foo.dll on Windows, and foo.dynlib on macOS. WIBNI you could say "load foo(bar)" and have Make try foo.EXT if foo didn't exist (wehere .EXT is the platform-specific extension)?