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

From: Giles Lean <giles@stonerows.net>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/35943: NetBSD 4.0 BETA_2: file(1) is ... confused 
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:50:45 +1000

 Hi all,
 
 I think this PR can be closed: the update of the file (1) cmd version
 format from '3' to '4' appears to have fixed this problem.
 
 In my original report with 4.0_BETA2/i386 compiled on OS/X I
 saw:
 
 | $ /usr/bin/file /usr/bin/vi
 | /usr/bin/vi: X11/NeWS bitmap font, for NetBSD 4.0, dynamically linked
 | (uses shared libs), not stripped
 
 I now see:
 
   $ /usr/bin/file /usr/bin/vi
   /usr/bin/vi: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV),
   for NetBSD 4.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
 
 The magic.mgc file is still being compiled with host endianness, but
 that's OK as file(1) is (now) able to cope correctly with that.  The
 change that made the difference:
 
 Old magic:
 
 | $ file magic.mgc
 |   magic.mgc: magic binary file for file(1) cmd (version 3) (big endian)
 
 New magic:
 
   $ file magic.mgc
     magic.mgc: magic binary file for file(1) cmd (version 4) (big endian)
 
 Regards,
 
 Giles