gnu/161289: Please update contrib/gperf to 3.0.3 (last GPL2 version)

[Pedro Giffuni]

>Number:         161289
>Category:       gnu
>Synopsis:       Please update contrib/gperf to 3.0.3 (last GPL2 version)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Oct 05 02:10:07 UTC 2011
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Pedro Giffuni
>Release:        9.0-BETA3
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>Environment:
FreeBSD pcbsd-8714 9.0-BETA3 FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 #1: Tue Sep 27 13:47:21 PDT 2011     root at build9x64.pcbsd.org:/usr/obj/pcbsd-build90/fbsd-source/9.0/sys/GENERIC  amd64

>Description:
Hi;

I am attempting to update Apache OpenOffice's code with the patches for FreeBSD support and the first issue I've found is:

OOo Bug 85469 - FreeBSD porting : gperf is old in the base system.

I understand FreeBSD never updated gperf in the system because the
new versions are written in C++ and we didn't want to require a C++
compiler to build the toolchain.

Of course with the new clang toolchain this is not an issue anymore
but with the new toolchain gperf is not required either ;).

In any case fixing this in OpenOffice (and LibreOffice) requires an
ugly workaround that ends up using the lang/gperf port.

Perhaps it's time to re-evaluate this update. It looks like we
don't have local patches there or in the port so it's pretty
straightforward.

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