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I downloaded the 3.0 tarfile and did a straightforward
 configure
 make
 make test
on Solaris 10 and got several test failures:
 290 tests OK.
 4 tests failed:
 test_cmath test_math test_posix test_subprocess
Here's the output for just the failing tests:
 test test_cmath failed -- Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/home/tuba/skipm/src/Python-3.0/Lib/test/test_cmath.py", line 336,
 in test_specific_values
 self.fail('OverflowError not raised in test %s' % test_str)
 AssertionError: OverflowError not raised in test exp0052: exp(complex(710.0,
 1.5))
 test test_math failed -- errors occurred; run in verbose mode for details
 test test_posix failed -- Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/home/tuba/skipm/src/Python-3.0/Lib/test/test_posix.py", line 252,
 in test_getcwd_long_pathnames
 support.rmtree(base_path)
 File "/home/tuba/skipm/src/Python-3.0/Lib/test/support.py", line 98, in
 rmtree shutil.rmtree(path)
 File "/home/tuba/skipm/src/Python-3.0/Lib/shutil.py", line 225, in rmtree
 onerror(os.rmdir, path, sys.exc_info())
 File "/home/tuba/skipm/src/Python-3.0/Lib/shutil.py", line 223, in rmtree
 os.rmdir(path)
 OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument:
 '/home/tuba/skipm/src/Python-3.0/@test.getcwd'
 Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
 Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
 Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
 Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams
 ImportError: No module named encodings.utf_8
 .
 this bit of output is from a test of stdout in a different process ...
 test test_subprocess failed -- Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/home/tuba/skipm/src/Python-3.0/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py", line
 115, in test_executable
 self.assertEqual(p.returncode, 47)
 AssertionError: -6 != 47
Here's the test_math output run through regrtest with the -v option:
 ======================================================================
 FAIL: testLog (test.test_math.MathTests)
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/home/tuba/skipm/src/Python-3.0/Lib/test/test_math.py", line 510, in
 testLog
 self.assertRaises(ValueError, math.log, NINF)
 AssertionError: ValueError not raised by log
 ======================================================================
 FAIL: testLog10 (test.test_math.MathTests)
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/home/tuba/skipm/src/Python-3.0/Lib/test/test_math.py", line 532, in
 testLog10
 self.assertRaises(ValueError, math.log10, NINF)
 AssertionError: ValueError not raised by log10
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Ran 39 tests in 0.294s
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