What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. cd /usr/local
2. svn co http://casacore.googlecode.com/svn/tags/casacore-1.5.0
3. cd casacore-1.5.0
4. export CASACORE_DATA="/usr/local/casacore-1.5.0/build"
5. cmake28 -DUSE_HDF5=ON -DUSE_FFTW3=ON  \
   -DDATA_DIR='${CASACORE_DATA}/measures/data' ..
6. make
7. cd measures
8. tar -jxvf /usr/local/kits/measures_data.tar.bz2
9. cd ..
10. make test
[11. make install]

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

At make test, it reports:
89% tests passed, 54 tests failed out of 478

Total Test time (real) = 149.60 sec

The following tests FAILED:
         77 - tBucketFile (Failed)
         79 - tByteIO (Failed)
         95 - tDirectory (Failed)
         98 - tFile (Failed)
        107 - tRegularFile (Failed)
        108 - tSymLink (Failed)
        269 - dMeasure (Failed)
        270 - tEarthField (Failed)
        271 - tEarthMagneticMachine (Failed)
        272 - tMBaseline (Failed)
        273 - tMEarthMagnetic (Failed)
        274 - tMeasComet (Failed)
        275 - tMeasJPL (Failed)
        277 - tMeasure (Failed)
        279 - tMuvw (Failed)
        280 - tParAngleMachine (Failed)
        284 - tVelocityMachine (Failed)
        285 - tIAU2000 (Failed)
        287 - tTableMeasures (Failed)
        378 - tMSDerivedValues (Failed)
        386 - tMSSimulator (Failed)
        396 - dCoordinates (Failed)
        400 - tCoordinateSystem (Failed)
        401 - tCoordinateUtil (Failed)
        403 - tFrequencyAligner (Failed)
        407 - tObsInfo (Failed)
        409 - tSpectralCoordinate (Failed)
        414 - dSpectralModel (Failed)
        415 - dTwoSidedShape (Failed)
        432 - dImageHistograms (Failed)
        434 - dImageMoments (Failed)
        435 - dImageStatistics (Failed)
        436 - dImageSummary (Failed)
        438 - tAntennaResponses (Failed)
        445 - tHDF5Image (Failed)
        446 - tImageAttrHandler (Failed)
        448 - tImageConvolver (Failed)
        450 - tImageEmpty (Failed)
        451 - tImageExpr2Gram (Failed)
        452 - tImageExpr3Gram (Failed)
        455 - tImageFFT (Failed)
        457 - tImageMetaData (Failed)
        459 - tImageRegrid (Failed)
        460 - tImageReorderer (Failed)
        462 - tImageStatistics (Failed)
        463 - tImageUtilities (Failed)
        464 - tLELSpectralIndex (Failed)
        466 - tPagedImage (Failed)
        467 - tPagedImage2 (Failed)
        468 - tRebinImage (Failed)
        469 - tSepImConvolver (Failed)
        474 - tRegionManager (Failed)
        475 - tWCBox (Failed)
        477 - tWCLELMask (Failed)
Errors while running CTest
make: *** [test] Error 8

Please provide any additional information below.

Hardware: Supermicro server with Intel E3-1230 v2 3.30GHz CPUs
memory: 32GB

OS: Scientific Linux 6.5
kernel: 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.x86_64

Followed the instructions given in 
https://code.google.com/p/casacore/wiki/BuildInstructions

as a step in preparing for LOFAR software:
http://lofarathamburg.wordpress.com

Please kindly refer to the log attached on other system details.

A complete new user, no idea the significance on the above errors.
But the subsequent step 11 did seem to proceed despite of the CTest failures.

Please kindly advise.

Many thanks in advance.

PS. First time submission, if possible, please email response to 
peter.chiu@stfc.ac.uk