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Installing Python 3.4.2 on CentOS 6. Clean install. Using procedure in README file:
./configure
make
make test
2 tests fail in "make test" The first one is because the FTP client
test is trying to test against a site that is long gone, the Digital Equipment Corporation Systems Research Center in Palo Alto:
ERROR: test_ftp (test.test_urllib2net.OtherNetworkTests) (url='ftp://gatekeeper.research.compaq.com/pub/DEC/SRC/research-reports/00README-Legal-Rules-Regs')
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Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/home/staging/local/python/Python-3.4.3/Lib/urllib/request.py", line 1399, in ftp_open
 fw = self.connect_ftp(user, passwd, host, port, dirs, req.timeout)
 File "/home/staging/local/python/Python-3.4.3/Lib/urllib/request.py", line 1445, in connect_ftp
 dirs, timeout)
 File "/home/staging/local/python/Python-3.4.3/Lib/urllib/request.py", line 2243, in __init__
 self.init()
 File "/home/staging/local/python/Python-3.4.3/Lib/urllib/request.py", line 2249, in init
 self.ftp.connect(self.host, self.port, self.timeout)
 File "/home/staging/local/python/Python-3.4.3/Lib/ftplib.py", line 153, in connect
 source_address=self.source_address)
 File "/home/staging/local/python/Python-3.4.3/Lib/socket.py", line 512, in create_connection
 raise err
 File "/home/staging/local/python/Python-3.4.3/Lib/socket.py", line 503, in create_connection
 sock.connect(sa)
TimeoutError: [Errno 110] Connection timed out
The second one is failing because "readline" (probably GNU readline) didn't behave as expected. The installed GCC is
"gcc (GCC) 4.4.6 20110731 (Red Hat 4.4.6-3)", which came with
"CentOS release 6.2 (Final)". This is a long-running production server.
Is that too old?
FAIL: test_init (test.test_readline.TestReadline)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/home/staging/local/python/Python-3.4.3/Lib/test/test_readline.py", line 57, in test_init
 self.assertEqual(stdout, b'')
AssertionError: b'\x1b[?1034h' != b''

The first test passes for me (although granted we should move that test to a psf hosted target, but we're slowly working on that general issue). The second is a bug in readline (see issue 19884).

The test_ftp connection timeout error failure (seen on some platforms) is a duplicate of Issue22289.
The test_readline failure is a duplicate of, among others, Issue22647 and is believed to no longer occur with the current Python 3.4.3 (released 2015年02月25日) and a GNU readline >= 6.3.