cygwin on 98

[Will Coleda]

Running make test by hand, then running individual tests by hand, I see
my problem is actually with:

ext/GDBM_File/gdbm.t

perl-current% ./perl ext/GDBM_File/gdbm.t
1..68
ok 1
ok 2 # Skipped: different file permission semantics
not ok 3

... hang ...

If I run the debugger:

$ ./perl -I lib -d ext/GDBM_File/gdbm.t

It is apparently hanging on $h{'goner1} = 'snork';

How do I proceed from here?