We received this mail from José de Paula (José, if you read this, I can't reply, your email address causes an SMTP error; can you please use another email address and drop me a msg at daniel AT glazman DOT org or use the comments on this blog to give me that address? thanks):

Hello,

I've just built the nvu from source in a x86 FreeBSD 5.2.1 machine,
following the Linux instructions. Worked like a charm! The only catch
is that you need to use gmake instead of the standard BSD make.

Thanks José!