It just hangs at the above

Yes - it does the same for me whenever I do a 'dmake realclean' followed by a rebuild. Just hit Ctrl-C, then run 'dmake test' again and it should work. Failing that, you could start with a fresh unpack of PAR-Packer-1.002 in a different location. This problem, and the failing test, are both things that should be reported as PAR-Packer bugs. (I think the problems building the executables are, however, *not* PAR-Packer bugs.)

Cheers,
Rob