Peter and I managed to nail down almost all the issues with "make check". This patch includes Peter's earlier ones, and is almost entirely changes to test code, or Makefile goo. There are still two tests failing (and unless they're simple, I would vote to ignore them, since I'm not sure they were run for the 0.40 release... anyone know?)

src/xml/repr-action-test src/display/bezier-utils-test

I'll try to get 0.41pre1 packaged tomorrow.

(This patch does not, however, include mental's update, which I think looks fine to go in.)