Re: Upraded from 7.0.1 to 7.0.2 --> could not run ELF binary

On Wed, 2 Nov 2016, Ray Phillips wrote:
> I had installed dmidecode [1] on a NetBSD i386 7.0.1 machine and it
> was working fine, but after upgrading to 7.0.2 trying to execute it
> produced this error (verbatim as far as I recall):
>
> could not run ELF binary
>
> Recompiling dmidecode solve the problem, but I'm curious to know what
> change in 7.0.2 would have produced that symptom?
>
> In this case there was no pressure from users to get it working again,
> but there could have been.  Is there any way to tell beforehand if an
> upgrade to the system will break existing binaries?

Do you still have the old dmidecode binary? Was it compiled on netbsd-7 or 
was it an older binary using COMPAT?

-- 
Stephen