I got this error while building on solaris 10 sparc chip, using GCC4.1.1

FAIL: check-guile
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1 of 1 tests failed
Please report to bug-guile@gnu.org
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*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
failed=0; all=0; xfail=0; xpass=0; skip=0; ws='[         ]'; \
srcdir=.; export srcdir; \
list=' check-guile '; \
if test -n "$list"; then \
  for tst in $list; do \
    if test -f ./$tst; then dir=./; \
    elif test -f $tst; then dir=; \
    else dir="./"; fi; \
    if  ${dir}$tst; then \
      all=`expr $all + 1`; \
      case "  " in \
      *$ws$tst$ws*) \
        xpass=`expr $xpass + 1`; \
        failed=`expr $failed + 1`; \
        echo "XPASS: $tst"; \
      ;; \
      *) \
        echo "PASS: $tst"; \
      ;; \
      esac; \
    elif test $? -ne 77; then \
      all=`expr $all + 1`; \
      case "  " in \
      *$ws$tst$ws*) \
        xfail=`expr $xfail + 1`; \
        echo "XFAIL: $tst"; \
      ;; \
      *) \
        failed=`expr $failed + 1`; \
        echo "FAIL: $tst"; \
      ;; \
      esac; \
    else \
      skip=`expr $skip + 1`; \
      echo "SKIP: $tst"; \
    fi; \
  done; \
  if test "$failed" -eq 0; then \
    if test "$xfail" -eq 0; then \
      banner="All $all tests passed"; \
    else \
      banner="All $all tests behaved as expected ($xfail expected failures)"; \
    fi; \
  else \
    if test "$xpass" -eq 0; then \
      banner="$failed of $all tests failed"; \
    else \
      banner="$failed of $all tests did not behave as expected ($xpass unexpected passes)"; \
    fi; \
  fi; \
  dashes="$banner"; \
  skipped=""; \
  if test "$skip" -ne 0; then \
    skipped="($skip tests were not run)"; \
    test `echo "$skipped" | wc -c` -le `echo "$banner" | wc -c` || \
      dashes="$skipped"; \
  fi; \
  report=""; \
  if test "$failed" -ne 0 && test -n "bug-guile@gnu.org"; then \
    report="Please report to bug-guile@gnu.org"; \
    test `echo "$report" | wc -c` -le `echo "$banner" | wc -c` || \
      dashes="$report"; \
  fi; \
  dashes=`echo "$dashes" | sed s/./=/g`; \
  echo "$dashes"; \
  echo "$banner"; \
  test -z "$skipped" || echo "$skipped"; \
  test -z "$report" || echo "$report"; \
  echo "$dashes"; \
  test "$failed" -eq 0; \
else :; fi
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `check-TESTS'
Current working directory /usr/share/src/guile-1.8.6
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `check-am'
Current working directory /usr/share/src/guile-1.8.6
*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
failcom='exit 1'; \
for f in x $MAKEFLAGS; do \
  case $f in \
    *=* | --[!k]*);; \
    *k*) failcom='fail=yes';; \
  esac; \
done; \
dot_seen=no; \
target=`echo check-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; \
list='oop libguile ice-9 guile-config guile-readline emacs  scripts srfi doc examples test-suite benchmark-suite lang am'; for subdir in $list; do \
  echo "Making $target in $subdir"; \
  if test "$subdir" = "."; then \
    dot_seen=yes; \
    local_target="$target-am"; \
  else \
    local_target="$target"; \
  fi; \
  (cd $subdir && make  $local_target) \
  || eval $failcom; \
done; \
if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \
  make  "$target-am" || exit 1; \
fi; test -z "$fail"
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `check-recursive'
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