Svn 1.4.2 failed duing unit tests

I'm building svn on fedora core 4 and it failed one of the unit tests during
make check. Can someone help me resolve this?

Error:
  At least one test FAILED, checking /root/svn142/subversion-1.4.2/tests.log
  FAIL: switch_tests.py 17: refresh the WC file system read-only attribute
  At least one test was SKIPPED, checking /root/svn142/subversion-1.4.2
/tests.log
  SKIP: utf8_tests.py 1: conversion of paths and logs to/from utf8
  SKIP: svnsync_tests.py 14: verify that unreadable content is not synced
  SKIP: svnsync_tests.py 15: verify that copies from unreadable dirs work
  SKIP: authz_tests.py 1: authz issue #2486 - open root
  SKIP: authz_tests.py 2: authz issue #2486 - open directory
  SKIP: authz_tests.py 3: broken authz files cause errors
  SKIP: authz_tests.py 4: test authz for read operations
  SKIP: authz_tests.py 5: test authz for write operations
  SKIP: authz_tests.py 6: test authz for checkout
  SKIP: authz_tests.py 7: test authz for log and tracing path changes
  SKIP: authz_tests.py 8: test authz for checkout and update
  SKIP: authz_tests.py 9: test authz for export with unreadable subfolder

Details:
    OS 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
    Svn 1.4.2
    Apache 2.0.59
    apr4 0.9.12
    neon 0.25.5
    zlib-1.2.3

apache configured: ./configure --enable-dav --enable-so
--enable-maintainer-mode

svn configured:
 neon copied into the svn build directory
./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs

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