NetBSD Problem Report #50843

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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 04:00:45 +0000 (UTC)
From: dean@av8.net
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Subject: Seems libmagic is broken.
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>Number:         50843
>Category:       lib
>Synopsis:       Seems libmagic is broken.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    lib-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Feb 24 04:05:00 +0000 2016
>Originator:     Dean Anderson
>Release:        7.0
>Organization:
Av8 Internet, Inc
>Environment:
NetBSD engine6 7.0 NetBSD 7.0 (AV8_XEN3_DOMU) #1: Tue Jan 26 20:59:13 EST 2016  root@efsnfs1.boscp.av8.net:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/AV8_XEN3_DOMU amd64
$
>Description:
The netbsd7.0 file command has a bug:


$ file /var/tmp/gnu-make-4.1-build001-build/x86-64.netbsd.7.0/gcc493/source/make-4.1/po/vi.po 
/var/tmp/gnu-make-4.1-build001-build/x86-64.netbsd.7.0/gcc493/source/make-4.1/po/vi.po: ERROR: line 59: regex error 16 for `^\s*except.*:', (invalid argument to regex routine)

This was not a problem in netbsd 6.1.5.

I found this using perl's libmagic package, but its not a bug in the perl package, 
>How-To-Repeat:
download
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-4.1.tar.gz
configure and build. 
>Fix:

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