Greetings,Third time is the charm :) RC1 and RC2 were missing t/conf/extra.conf.in from the MANIFEST.
I've updated the release procedure to run make disttest to identify these errors, and fixed the problem.
All tests pass for me on: 1) Leopard mp2, 5.8.8 2) Linux 2.6.22, mp1, mp2, 5.8.8 http://people.apache.org/~phred/Apache-Reload-0.10-RC3.tar.gz