The snapshot infrastructure at
svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/sdcc/code/trunk/sdcc-cf/packages/build.gputils
Uses gputils 1.2.0 from 2013. It probably should use a more recent version. It seems like 1.5.0 is the latest gputils release; there is also a version 1.5.0-1 archive at the gputils download page, but it wasn't announced on the gpuitls website, so I'm not sure if it is meant to be an official release.
Philipp
Note that you'll need at least r1297 for the PIC regression tests to run, and r1299 has another fix I identified using the SDCC regression tests.
These are not in 1.5.0, I do not know which gputils version has these fixes.
Maybe it's best not to touch this stuff until we have working regression testing with a current gputils release.
Philipp