I have looked into this and, as Dmitry pointed out, there were a few things amiss with the test suite.
1. There was the way the test script was being created on the fly. I have addressed this by creating a standalone file in the testsuite directory. 2. Multiple tests were being run, but this was not clear from the test suite's output. It was reporting failure in one test and success in another. I have addressed this by numbering the tests. From now one the test suite will print "Test 1 failed...., Test 2 success..." 3. There was an error in the way startpar was handling command line arguments, passed to it from the test suite. This has been fixed upstream too. In the next version of startpar, running "make check" will run the test suite and print out test number and their status. As of this moment, both tests pass on my system. I believe we can mark this bug as fixed upstream, unless there are more concerns with the test suite checks. - Jesse
