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

From: Giles Lean <giles.lean@pobox.com>
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, 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 10:45:42 +1100

 Hi Matt,
 
 > this reminds me of a problem we were having a few months ago with file
 > building corrupted magic files.  what system built your release?
 
 OS/X 10.4.8 on PPC.
 
 I'll try a build on the i386 4.0_BETA2 machine itself and
 see if that fixes it.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Giles