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: bin/29682: /usr/bin/file does not seem to understand some fields of an ELF binary
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 21:05:59 +0100

 Using the sparc64 generated magic.mgc file on i386 results in the same
 failure.
 
 (Btw: you have to use -m ./magic even if you realy want to use ./magic.mgc)
 
 Martin