When was the last ports tree that worked with RELENG_6?

[Darren Pilgrim]

On 2013-02-16 08:06, Chris Rees wrote:
> I'm pretty certain that ports on 6.X was broken with OPTIONSng
> (r297660), but I seem to remember that other compatibility was ripped
> out before then; perhaps Mark can clarify.
>
> r259629 specifically talks about removing 6.3 shims, but that is way before.

259629 is long before ports trees I know work and a quick read of the 
commit says it's about 6.3-R and older only.

> I think you may have some luck installing an up to date make(1) and
> dialog(1) (or set NO_DIALOG=yes in make.conf) from stable/9 or
> similar; many of the problems on 6 are caused by missing variable
> modifiers.

I'll try this, thanks.  Wisdom gained to follow.