Rebuilding MPSS locally

I am buildling MPSS-3.5 and I am facing two issues:

First is the --same-order vs. -c option of tar mentioned above (also see https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2013-October/016540.html) which can be worked around by downgrading tar to 1.26 (I just copied an older distro binary to /usr/local/bin).

The second one is fixed at
http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=600375d18e6ccd085051538636...

and fails in m4:

ccache gcc -std=gnu99  -I.   -isystem/home/eudoxos/build/yocto/mpss-3.5/build/poky/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/include  -isystem/home/eudoxos/build/yocto/mpss-3.5/build/poky/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/include -O2 -pipe -c execute.c
In file included from clean-temp.h:22:0,
                 from clean-temp.c:23:
./stdio.h:477:20: error: 'gets' undeclared here (not in a function)
 _GL_WARN_ON_USE (gets, "gets is a security hole - use fgets instead");
                    ^
Makefile:1401: recipe for target 'clean-temp.o' failed
make[3]: *** [clean-temp.o] Error 1

How can I work around that one? I seem to be out of control since bitbaker downloads the tarball from upstream, and I don't know where to put some patch to be applied.

Do you have some public git branch where this is updated? Or some other updates on MPSS-source? Both issues were trivially patched 3 years ago upstream.

Cheers, v.