Dear Odhiambo,
Am 22.01.2018 um 19:58 schrieb Odhiambo Washington:
...and I am still unable to successfully compile 2.3RC on FreeBSD 8.4 and 9.3....and my reports were ignored, so should I assume support for those has been dropped?Support for FreeBSD 8.4 stopped August 1, 2015.
Support for FreeBSD 9.3 stopped December 31, 2016Please see here:
https://www.freebsd.org/security/unsupported.html
You should really upgrade to current version 10.4 or 11.1.
Gruß Matthias