Problems with 'make test' with Python 1..5.2

[Christopher J. Kucera]

Hello, all.

I'm having some problems with Python 1.5.2.  It's on a Pentium system
running Linux kernel 2.2.9 (admittedly a bit old).  It builds just fine,
but the tests "test_types" and "test_long" fail.  Here's test_types:

 > [pez at amber Python-1.5.2]$ ./python Lib/test/test_types.py
 > 6. Built-in types
 > 6.1 Truth value testing
 > 6.2 Boolean operations
 > 6.3 Comparisons
 > 6.4 Numeric types (mostly conversions)
 > 6.4.1 32-bit integers
 > 6.4.2 Long integers
 > Traceback (innermost last):
 >   File "Lib/test/test_types.py", line 89, in ?
 >     if int(long(x)) != x: raise TestFailed, 'long op'
 > OverflowError: long int too long to convert

The oddest thing about this is that I can't get this behavior
to reproduce by running the commands from the Python interpreter
myself.  test_long fails like so:

 > [pez at amber Python-1.5.2]$ ./python Lib/test/test_long.py
 > long / * % divmod
 > long bit-operation identities
 > long str/hex/oct/atol
 > long miscellaneous operations
 > Traceback (innermost last):
 >   File "Lib/test/test_long.py", line 251, in ?
 >     test_misc()
 >   File "Lib/test/test_long.py", line 225, in test_misc
 >     raise TestFailed, "int(long(-sys.maxint-1)) overflowed!"
 > test_support -- test failed: int(long(-sys.maxint-1)) overflowed!

Is there something to be done, or am I stuck with these errors?

Thanks much for any help you may be able to give!

-CJ