My Results w/17.0 update 4 using the code base (unmodified) attached in the original post.

[whizard-2.4.1_17.0u4]$ egrep "^\#|=======|Testsuite" make_check.out | egrep -v "remark|warning"
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Testsuite summary for WHIZARD 2.4.1
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# TOTAL: 13
# PASS:  13
# SKIP:  0
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
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Testsuite summary for WHIZARD 2.4.1
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# TOTAL: 13
# PASS:  12
# SKIP:  0
# XFAIL: 1
# FAIL:  0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
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Testsuite summary for WHIZARD 2.4.1
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# TOTAL: 3
# PASS:  3
# SKIP:  0
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
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Testsuite summary for WHIZARD 2.4.1
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# TOTAL: 114
# PASS:  102
# SKIP:  12
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
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Testsuite summary for WHIZARD 2.4.1
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# TOTAL: 224
# PASS:  111
# SKIP:  26
# XFAIL: 3
# FAIL:  84
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
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