The following reply was made to PR bin/35943; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, giles.lean@pobox.com
Cc: gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: re: bin/35943: NetBSD 4.0 BETA_2: file(1) is ... confused 
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:17:54 +1100

 this reminds me of a problem we were having a few months ago with file
 building corrupted magic files.  what system built your release?  try
 rebuilding file from scratch including deleting the magic files and
 re-building those with the new file.  this problem occured only on 64bit
 build hosts iirc...
 
 the symptoms we saw earlier included pkgsrc failing to deal with shlibs
 properly...
 
 
 
 .mrg.