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Below is the tail of the output of 'make test' for 32-bit Python 2.6a2 
on Solaris 10 (Opteron) built with the SUN C compiler.
310 tests OK.
1 test failed:
 test_ioctl
41 tests skipped:
 test_aepack test_al test_applesingle test_bsddb test_bsddb185
 test_bsddb3 test_cd test_cl test_codecmaps_cn test_codecmaps_hk
 test_codecmaps_jp test_codecmaps_kr test_codecmaps_tw test_ctypes
 test_curses test_epoll test_gdbm test_gl test_imageop test_imgfile
 test_kqueue test_linuxaudiodev test_macostools test_normalization
 test_ossaudiodev test_pep277 test_py3kwarn test_scriptpackages
 test_socket_ssl test_socketserver test_sqlite test_ssl
 test_startfile test_tcl test_timeout test_unicode_file
 test_urllib2net test_urllibnet test_winreg test_winsound
 test_zipfile64
3 skips unexpected on sunos5:
 test_tcl test_ssl test_ctypes
The ctypes test failed since the _ctypes module did not compile.
...
cc -KPIC -xtarget=native -DNDEBUG -xO5 -I. -I/.../tools/Python-
2.6a2/./Include -Ibuild/temp.solaris-2.10-i86pc-2.6/libffi/include -
Ibuild/temp.solaris-2.10-i86pc-2.6/libffi -I/.../tools/Python-
2.6a2/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src -I. -IInclude -I./Include -
I/.../tools/Python-2.6a2/Include -I/.../tools/Python-2.6a2 -c 
.../tools/Python-2.6a2/Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.c -o build/temp.solaris-
2.10-i86pc-2.6/.../tools/Python-2.6a2/Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.o
"build/temp.solaris-2.10-i86pc-2.6/libffi/include/ffitarget.h", line 67: 
undefined symbol: FFI_DEFAULT_ABI
"build/temp.solaris-2.10-i86pc-2.6/libffi/include/ffitarget.h", line 68: 
non-constant enumerator value
"build/temp.solaris-2.10-i86pc-2.6/libffi/include/ffi.h", line 255: 
syntax error before or at: __attribute__
"build/temp.solaris-2.10-i86pc-2.6/libffi/include/ffi.h", line 255: 
warning: old-style declaration or incorrect type for: __attribute__
"build/temp.solaris-2.10-i86pc-2.6/libffi/include/ffi.h", line 255: 
warning: syntax error: empty declaration
".../tools/Python-2.6a2/Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.c", line 155: cannot 
recover from previous errors
cc: acomp failed for /.../tools/Python-2.6a2/Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.c
...
The test_ioctl failures seems test related.
...
test test_ioctl failed -- Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/.../tools/Python-2.6a2/Lib/test/test_ioctl.py", line 56, in 
test_ioctl_signed_unsigned_code_param
 saved_winsz = fcntl.ioctl(mfd, termios.TIOCGWINSZ, "0円"*8)
IOError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument
...
There is no SSL support and Tcl is not installed on this machine. 
Finally, this failure does not show up in the summary:
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test_parser
Expecting 's_push: parser stack overflow' in next line
s_push: parser stack overflow
...

On *nix-like systems, ctypes will most likely only compile with gcc. 
Since I do not have access to such systems, neither the expertise for
them, this will not change unless someone provides patches.

Please create one report per issue.

Done, see issues 2552, 2554 and 2555. Please ignore, close duplicate 
2553.

Thanks!