Thanks for the ping, I did not see this one come in for some reason. I have added the testsuite to the Makefile's "check" target and addressed the unset variable issue.
Going through the tests, figuring out which ones are failing and why will take a little longer. Or, for that matter, there may be cases where failing is a good thing as some of the tests seem to be dealing with situations where the data is problematic and we need to bomb out. I'll check. - Jesse