You should definitely be able to build and run all tests on a mac. There
are some known problems with certain distributed tests related to timeouts
etc.
Solr's tests will randomly enable SSL and when that happens Solr will
reject a call made using HTTP. This is what is happening according to that
Is it expected that one should be able to build the whole project (ant test
at top level) on a macbook pro (circa 2012, ssd, OS X 10.9.1, java
1.8.0_20)?
I've attempted it about a dozen times, sometimes updating, sometimes
repeating on the same revision. I've never had success and generally 1-5
te