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

[Brad Spencer <brad%anduin.eldar.org@localhost>]

coypu%SDF.ORG@localhost writes:

[snip]

> For *most* things, there is a strong emphasis on backwards compatibility.
> To the point that if you upgrade a NetBSD 1.5 system to NetBSD 7.99.x,
> and some program fails to run, it will be probably considered a bug.

Over the many years I have run NetBSD there has been two instances where
this was not true for me.  The first was from 0.9 to 1.0.  In that case,
emacs from 0.9 would not work on 1.0 without a recompile.  The second
was from 4.0 to 7.0.  In that case, programs that used pthreads /
schedular activations did not work as that support had been removed some
time ago.  This messed with some packages from the 4.0 pkgsrc on the 7.0
kernel and I don't believe that there was ever an official fix for this
situation although I did find at least one email thread talking about
this.  Neither situation was fatal or hard to deal with.





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