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
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:18:50 +0100

 On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 01:11:02AM +0000, sigsegv@rambler.ru wrote:
 >  I think binary files should all be 'big endian' this is what's causing 
 >  the problem
 
 No, file(1) is supposed to be able to deal with both endianesses of the
 compiled magic file. If endianess alone is the problem, any big endian arch
 should have trouble with an i386 compile magic.mgc file. Easy to check...
 
 Martin