diff -up execnet-1.2.0/testing/test_rsync.py.needssymlink execnet-1.2.0/testing/test_rsync.py
--- execnet-1.2.0/testing/test_rsync.py.needssymlink	2014-06-16 09:26:02.320929971 -0600
+++ execnet-1.2.0/testing/test_rsync.py	2014-06-18 11:42:01.024851339 -0600
@@ -12,9 +12,6 @@ def pytest_funcarg__gw1(request):
     )
 pytest_funcarg__gw2 = pytest_funcarg__gw1
 
-needssymlink = pytest.mark.skipif(not hasattr(py.path.local, "mksymlinkto"),
-                                  reason="py.path.local has no mksymlinkto() on this platform")
-
 def pytest_funcarg__dirs(request):
     t = request.getfuncargvalue('tmpdir')
     class dirs:
@@ -133,7 +130,6 @@ class TestRSync:
         mode = destdir.stat().mode
         assert mode & 511 == 504
 
-    @needssymlink
     def test_symlink_rsync(self, dirs, gw1):
         source = dirs.source
         dest = dirs.dest1
@@ -149,7 +145,6 @@ class TestRSync:
         assert dest.join('rellink').readlink() == "subdir/existant"
         assert dest.join('abslink').readlink() == expected
 
-    @needssymlink
     def test_symlink2_rsync(self, dirs, gw1):
         source = dirs.source
         dest = dirs.dest1