On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Dave Huang wrote:

> I just cross-compiled a mac68k 1.6 release on an alpha and found that
> file(1) doesn't work... it dies "invalid type 0 in mconvert()". Looks
> like this is because the /usr/share/misc/magic*.mgc files made by
> mkmagic have the endianness of the system they're built on... in my
> case, they were little-endian while the m68k is expecting big-endian.
> I did a quick search through the list archives and didn't see any
> mention of this particular problem (did come across some stuff about
> struct padding back in June), so I wanted to let y'all know :)

There must be more to it than endianness (sizeof int, perhaps?),
becuase the cross-build from i386 works fine. When you run file over
the *.mgc files, it even says little-endian, but it still works.

Frederick