I am confused.

The bot complains nearly immediately about missing _socket

Following modules built successfully but were removed because they could not be imported:
_asyncio                                                       
running build_scripts
copying and adjusting /home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Tools/scripts/pydoc3 -> build/scripts-3.9
copying and adjusting /home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Tools/scripts/idle3 -> build/scripts-3.9
copying and adjusting /home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Tools/scripts/2to3 -> build/scripts-3.9
changing mode of build/scripts-3.9/pydoc3 from 600 to 755
changing mode of build/scripts-3.9/idle3 from 600 to 755
changing mode of build/scripts-3.9/2to3 from 600 to 755
renaming build/scripts-3.9/pydoc3 to build/scripts-3.9/pydoc3.9
renaming build/scripts-3.9/idle3 to build/scripts-3.9/idle3.9
renaming build/scripts-3.9/2to3 to build/scripts-3.9/2to3-3.9
./python -E -c 'import sys ; from sysconfig import get_platform ; print("%s-%d.%d" % (get_platform(), *sys.version_info[:2]))' >platform
./python  ./Tools/scripts/run_tests.py -j 1 -u all -W --slowest --fail-env-changed --timeout=900 -j2 --junit-xml test-results.xml 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/./Tools/scripts/run_tests.py", line 12, in <module>
    import test.support
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Lib/test/support/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    import asyncio.events
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Lib/asyncio/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
    from .base_events import *
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Lib/asyncio/base_events.py", line 23, in <module>
    import socket
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Lib/socket.py", line 51, in <module>
    import _socket
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_socket'

while if I use my (now closed) pr18847 I do not get the results immediately - it starts the whole test series, and then fails - but not because _socket does not exist, instead:

0:00:48 [ 53/420/2] test_socket failed (30.4 sec) -- running: test_multiprocessing_fork (48.3 sec)
/data/prj/python/git/python3-3.9/Lib/test/test_socket.py:2557: RuntimeWarning: received malformed or improperly-truncated ancillary data
  result = sock.recvmsg(bufsize, *args)
/data/prj/python/git/python3-3.9/Lib/test/test_socket.py:2648: RuntimeWarning: received malformed or improperly-truncated ancillary data
  result = sock.recvmsg_into([buf], *args)
test test_socket failed -- Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/data/prj/python/git/python3-3.9/Lib/test/test_socket.py", line 1481, in testGetaddrinfo
    self.assertEqual(socktype, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
AssertionError: 0 != <SocketKind.SOCK_STREAM: 1>


In short, stumped...