The 3.0a1 Solaris build (see issue #1356) fails at the end of  make test 
with the following error:

....
test_zlib
278 tests OK.
5 tests failed:
    test_cookielib test_email test_fileio test_pipes test_uuid
39 tests skipped:
    test_aepack test_applesingle test_bsddb test_bsddb3
    test_codecmaps_cn test_codecmaps_hk test_codecmaps_jp
    test_codecmaps_kr test_codecmaps_tw test_ctypes test_curses
    test_gdbm test_hashlib test_hmac test_macostools
    test_normalization test_ossaudiodev test_pep277 test_plistlib
    test_scriptpackages test_socket_ssl test_socketserver test_sqlite
    test_ssl test_startfile test_sundry test_tarfile test_tcl
    test_timeout test_unicode_file test_unicodedata test_urllib2
    test_urllib2_localnet test_urllib2net test_urllibnet test_winreg
    test_winsound test_xmlrpc_net test_zipfile64
11 skips unexpected on sunos5:
    test_hashlib test_hmac test_urllib2_localnet test_urllib2net
    test_ctypes test_urllib2 test_tcl test_sundry test_ssl
    test_tarfile test_unicodedata
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `test'

The entire log of  make test is attached.  If you need other make or  
configure logs or if I should rebuild with other options, let me know.

Please run the test suite in verbose mode and attach the output:

$ ./python Lib/test/regrtest.py -v test_cookielib test_email test_fileio
test_pipes test_uuid

You seem to missing some packages to build additional extensions. Can
you install sqlite, openssl, readline, TCL/TK, curses and BSDDB?

Unfortunately, I can't install the missing package right now.  But here is 
to log file from the verbose tests.  It looks like all errors are due to 
the missing _md5 module.

If this report is simply due to the lack of certain required packages,
can it just be closed as invalid?

Close it for now.  Once I have the missing packages installed I will try 
again.

My main concern was not the actual test failures, but the  make test *** 
Error 1 ... itself.

Closing.

The make fatal error is just what make prints when a command fails with
a nonzero exit code; regrtest.py returns a nonzero exit code to the
shell for just this purpose.