After I build Python-3.3.2 from the .tar.xz using the following script (on Mageia Linux Cauldron x86-64):

<<<
#!/bin/bash
./configure --prefix="$HOME/apps/python3" --with-threads \
                --enable-ipv6 --with-dbmliborder=gdbm \
                --with-system-expat \
                --with-system-ffi \
                --enable-shared \
                --with-valgrind
shlomif@telaviv1:~/Download/unpack/prog/python/Python-3.3.2$ 
>>>

then I get this test failure in the «test_no_optimize_flag»:

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ERROR: test_no_optimize_flag (distutils.tests.test_bdist_rpm.BuildRpmTestCase)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/shlomif/Download/unpack/prog/python/Python-3.Lib/distutils/tests/test_bdist_rpm.py", line 125, in test_no_optimize_flag
    cmd.run()
  File "/home/shlomif/Download/unpack/prog/python/Python-3.Lib/distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py", line 366, in run
    self.spawn(rpm_cmd)
  File "/home/shlomif/Download/unpack/prog/python/Python-3.Lib/distutils/cmd.py", line 366, in spawn
    spawn(cmd, search_path, dry_run=self.dry_run)
  File "/home/shlomif/Download/unpack/prog/python/Python-3.Lib/distutils/spawn.py", line 32, in spawn
    _spawn_posix(cmd, search_path, dry_run=dry_run)
  File "/home/shlomif/Download/unpack/prog/python/Python-3.Lib/distutils/spawn.py", line 163, in _spawn_posix
    % (cmd[0], exit_status))
distutils.errors.DistutilsExecError: command 'rpmbuild' failed with exit status 1
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9395

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More info can be found at http://bugs.python.org/issue18142 .

Please look into fixing it.

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish