On May 30,  8:18pm, rpaulo@netbsd-pt.org (Rui Paulo) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: bin/30379

The file database is should work both on big and little endian boxes.
There was a bug in the file source that prevented that, but it should
be fixed in head.

christos

|  file(1) is not recognizing binary files correctly because you built your
|  userland on a little-endian machine. There should be a way to solve this
|  problem as _every_ port is affected if the endianess of the build host
|  is different (the releng machine is little-endian).
|  
|  As a workaround, besides reinstalling file on the host, you could use
|  file -C.
|  
|  I first saw this on port-sparc64 mailing list.
|  
|  Who can we solve this problem ? 
|  Possible solutions:
|  	1) add an rc.d script so that it generates the magic file on
|  	every startup;
|  	2) add a flag to file(1) so that you can choose between little
|  	or big endian;
|  	3) make the file(1) magic file endian-independant.
|  
|  Personally, I think 3) is kind of impossible, so I'd for 2).
|  
|  --
|  Rui Paulo <rpaulo@netbsd-pt.org>
|  
-- End of excerpt from Rui Paulo