tools/regression/lib/libc/string/Makefile is, in contrast to most other tests, dependent on devel/libtap. Not having ltap library gives an error when running 'make'. Warn the user what's wrong. Fix: Apply the patch to get better error message. cd /usr/ports/devel/libtap && make install to install libtap and be able to build the test Patch attached with submission follows: How-To-Repeat: cd tools/regression/lib/libc/string/ make
The test cases have been integrated into ATF in this commit and will be MFCed to stable/10: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r290539 | ngie | 2015-11-07 23:53:31 -0800 (Sat, 07 Nov 2015) | 6 lines Integrate tools/regression/lib/libc/string into the FreeBSD test suite as lib/libc/tests/string MFC after: 1 week Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division I'm not sure if it's worth modifying stable/9's Makefile to emit that message though seeing as how stable/9 is getting close to being EOL.
The integration work was merged to stable/10. Closing the bug (thank you for the submission!).