Thanks, Coke. On my Linux VM I did not yet have Test::Perl::Critic installed, so I first tested the patch to see if it would DTRT, i.e., skip all. It did.
I then installed Test::Perl::Critic via 'cpan' and retested, successfully. (I might add that since the first files to be tested are Configure.pl and the config/*/*.pm modules I maintain, it was gratifying to see all those "ok"s whiz by!) kid51