On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 15:55:30 -0600
  in <BDA5FEA7-7D0E-4B57-AAAD-68B15BB14D23@cea.fr>
  Alan Braslau <alan.braslau@cea.fr> wrote:

> Mailing list:
> 
> There was some fluctuation in the FreeBSD binaries being distributed
> on contextgarden.net.
> 
> With the recent introduction of FreeBSD 11.0, the GPL3-tainted GNU
> libstdc++ has been dropped in favor of a new, clean libc++. This
> follows on the switch from gcc to clang that took place with the
> introduction of FreeBSD 10.0. As a result, the new binaries compiled
> on FreeBSD 11.0 failed to work on older systems, i.e. FreeBSD 9.3
> (still in production/supported). We now take care to provide binaries
> compiled under FreeBSD 9.3 on the garden, at least until this version
> gets phased-out at the end of the year.

According to my experience, an official EOL rarely means the end of
real-world use. FWIW, I'd stick with 9.X for a while.

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