The following reply was made to PR bin/29682; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-sparc64/29682: /usr/bin/file does not seem to understand some fields of an ELF binary
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:54:54 +0100

 This problem only happens if the magic.mgc file is created by a cross-compile
 from a non LP64 host. Replacing /usr/share/misc/magic.mgc by a native build
 one fixes it.
 
 Martin