@User: Also: Current magic version is 8.3.39.

oh, then this may be an 8th layer type of issue, still figuring out git, keep doing pull but is telling me I’m up to date, is that from the master branch?

I think the problem is that the version reported by magic doesn't update unless you you run "configure" again. If you just pull and do "make", the VERSION file updates but the older version string is already in the Makefile. So check the VERSION file to see what version you have, not the version string output in magic.

works, I was afraid to run configure and lose all the tuning I had to do to build on macOS (mostly related to build against X11 instead of quartz)

cat ../magic/VERSION
8.3.39