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[Slawa Olhovchenkov]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 03:39:57PM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 08:09:50PM +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> > Also, I am think current ports don't build on 4.x.
> 
> I will personally guarantee, in writing, that current ports do not build
> on 4.x, nor have they done so for years.  I personally removed the legacy
> cruft when 4.11 finally went EOL.
> 
> > I am got complains about using ports on 8.x.
> 
> I am 99% certain that ports will not work on either 8.x or 9.x.  Legacy
> cruft was removed at the EOL in each of those cases.
> 
> Anyone who think that we can support ports on 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x,
> 9.x, 10.x, 11.x, and -current, all at the same time, needs to seek medical
> attention at once.  At the absolute least, that era spans 3 major versions
> of make(1) and two completely different package implementations.

I am assume no problem to use new make on old system.
May be posible use pkg too (not sure about pkg requirements to
syscalls).