darcs patch: Don't try to redefine ELF types

[Simon Marlow]

On 08/11/2009 19:14, Matthias Kilian wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 08:08:12PM +0100, Matthias Kilian wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 20:08:12 +0100 (CET)
>> Message-Id:<200911081908.nA8J8CwB031137 at nutty.outback.escape.de>
>> To: cvs-ghc at haskell.org
>> From: Matthias Kilian<kili at outback.escape.de>
>> Subject: darcs patch: Don't try to redefine ELF types
>>
>> Sun Nov  8 18:48:50 CET 2009  Matthias Kilian<kili at outback.escape.de>
>>    * Don't try to redefine ELF types
>>    At least on OpenBSD, ELFCLASS and all the Elf_* and ELF_* stuff is
>>    already defined (in sys/exec_elf.h, which is included from elf_abi.h).
>>
>>    Hopefully, using Elf_Addr as a sentinel is enough to not break the build
>>    on other systems.
>
> Attention! This patch is of questionable use, since all it does for
> me is to avoid errors when the rts is built on one system for the
> creation of boot.tar.gz for another system, to create a hc file
> bundle. So it maybe completely pointless, and if someone wants to
> push it at all, please test a normal build (or ask others to test
> it) on other systems (at least Linuxes, maybe other BSDs) first.

Ok, I don't have a BSD box to test on right now, but I can validate on 
Linux.  Do you think it's important to get the patch in?

Cheers,
	Simon