Hi--

On Jun 21, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Martin McCormick wrote:
>       I have a large number of home-grown applications that
> run under FreeBSD 6.3 and earlier. As we transition to
> FreeBSD8.0, is there a good single package to add which will
> provide the right libraries to allow these older binaries to run
> without surprises?

Yes, you want:

  /usr/ports/misc/compat6x

It installs the libraries from FreeBSD-6.x under a compatibility location so 
that your older binaries should run without needing to be recompiled....

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck

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