I have a PC with an AMD cpu and Mandrake 10.1. While installing Python 2.4 "make test" failed in "test_shutils.py". Here is the output of "./python ./Lib/test/test_shutil.py": test_dont_copy_file_onto_link_to_itself (__main__.TestShutil) ... ok test_dont_move_dir_in_itself (__main__.TestShutil) ... ok test_on_error (__main__.TestShutil) ... FAIL test_rmtree_dont_delete_file (__main__.TestShutil) ... ok test_rmtree_errors (__main__.TestShutil) ... ok ====================================================================== FAIL: test_on_error (__main__.TestShutil) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "./Lib/test/test_shutil.py", line 34, in test_on_error self.assertEqual(self.errorState, 2) AssertionError: 0 != 2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ran 5 tests in 0.005s FAILED (failures=1) Traceback (most recent call last): File "./Lib/test/test_shutil.py", line 106, in ? test_main() File "./Lib/test/test_shutil.py", line 103, in test_main test_support.run_unittest(TestShutil) File "/usr/local/src/Python-2.4/Lib/test/test_support.py", line 290, in run_u run_suite(suite, testclass) File "/usr/local/src/Python-2.4/Lib/test/test_support.py", line 275, in run_s raise TestFailed(err) test.test_support.TestFailed: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./Lib/test/test_shutil.py", line 34, in test_on_error self.assertEqual(self.errorState, 2) AssertionError: 0 != 2