Perhaps I'm not interpreting something happening earlier, but `make test' here  only seems to run a short time but doesn't actually finish.  It appears not to be using any cpu, or waiting for input, so I'm not sure what's happening.
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test_grammar
test_opcodes
test_dict
test_builtin
test_exceptions
test_types
test_unittest
test_doctest
test_doctest2
test_py3kwarn
test_py3kwarn skipped -- test.test_py3kwarn must be run with the -3 flag
test_MimeWriter
test_SimpleHTTPServer
test_StringIO
test___all__
test test___all__ failed -- Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/src/Python-2.6.8rc2/Lib/test/test___all__.py", line 103, in test_all
    self.check_all(modname)
  File "/usr/local/src/Python-2.6.8rc2/Lib/test/test___all__.py", line 39, in check_all
    modname, e.__class__.__name__, e))

AssertionError: __all__ failure in distutils.command: ImportError: No module named _sha256

test___future__
test__locale
test_abc
test_abstract_numbers
test_aepack
test_aepack skipped -- No module named aepack
test_aifc
test_al
test_al skipped -- No module named al
test_anydbm
test_applesingle
test_applesingle skipped -- No module named macostools
test_array
test_ast
test_asynchat
test test_asynchat failed -- multiple errors occurred; run in verbose mode for details
test_asyncore
test test_asyncore failed -- multiple errors occurred; run in verbose mode for details
test_atexit
test_audioop
test_augassign
test_base64
test_bastion
test_bigaddrspace
test_bigmem
test_binascii
test_binhex
test_binop
test_bisect
test_bool
test_bsddb
test_bsddb skipped -- No module named _bsddb
test_bsddb185
test_bsddb185 skipped -- No module named bsddb185
test_bsddb3
test_bsddb3 skipped -- No module named _bsddb
test_buffer
test_bufio
test_bytes
test_bz2
test_bz2 skipped -- No module named bz2
test_calendar
test_call
test_capi