Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

[Oliver Fromme]

Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:
 > The current status is that we support 8.x and 9.x well.  Ports support
 > for 7.x is starting to fade over time as new upstream releases rely
 > on newer APIs.  6.x went EOL 11/30/2010 and we no longer claim to
 > support it in ports.

FWIW ...  In fact, I can confirm that the ports don't support
6.x anymore since last week.  :-)

# cd /usr/ports/dns/bind96
# make
No closing parenthesis in archive specification
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.options.mk", line 177: Error in archive specification: "WITH_"
No closing parenthesis in archive specification
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.options.mk", line 177: Error in archive specification: "WITH_"
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue

Best regards
   Oliver

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