[Bug 223430] math/dynare: update to 4.5.3

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            Bug ID: 223430
           Summary: math/dynare: update to 4.5.3
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: freebsd-ports-bugs at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com

Created attachment 187731
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patch to the ports tree

The attached patch updates math/dynare to version 4.5.3

4.5.3 is a bugfix over 4.5.2 that has the following changes (from the
announcement mail:

This release is compatible with MATLAB versions 7.3 (R2006b) to 9.3 (R2017b)
and with GNU Octave versions 4.2.


Here is a list of the problems identified in version 4.5.1 and that have been
fixed in version 4.5.2:

 - Fixed bug in perfect foresight solver:

   + If expected shocks were declared after the terminal period, as specified
   by the `periods` option, Dynare was crashing.

   + Models declared with the `linear` option were crashing if exogenous
   variables were present with a lead or lag.

 - After ML or Bayesian estimation when the smoother option or `mh_replic=0`
   were not specified, not all smoothed measurement errors were displayed.

 - Fixed error in reference manual about the `conditional_forecasts` command.

 - Fixed smoother behaviour, provide informative error instead of crashing when
   model cannot be solved.

 - The `nopathchange` preprocessor option was always triggered, regardless of
   whether it was passed or not.

 - When `ramsey_policy` is used, allow state variables to be set in `histval`
   block.

 - `histval` erroneously accepted leads, leading to cryptic crashes.

 - The prior MC draws from previous runs were not deleted, potentially
   resulting in loading stale files.

 - `estim_params_` was being declared `global` more than once.

 - Fixed crashes happening when simulating linear models with order>1.

 - Make empirical moments independent of `simul_replic`, as stated in the
   reference manual, by outputting moments computed with the first simulated
   sample.

 - The `prior_function` required a preceding `estimation`-command to properly
   set up the prior.

 - If the mode for a parameter was at exactly 0, `mode_check` was crashing.

 - Fixed `get_posterior_parameters`-routine which should not do more than
   getting parameters. As a consequence, the `shock_decomposition`-command
   did not correctly set the `parameter_set` for use in subsequent function
   calls if shocks are correlated or measurement error is present.

 - Fixed bug in Ramsey problem with constraints both on a policy instrument and
   another variable. Note that the constraint on a variable that is not an
   instrument of the Ramsey problem must be written with an equation tag in the
   model block.

 - Fixed bug in Ramsey problem with constraints on policy instrument.

 - Fixed crash with optimizer 5 when not used with DSGE model at order 1.

 - Fixed mex file used for third order approximation (was crashing on
   Matlab/Windows 7).

 - `isfile` routine was failing with MATLAB older than R2016b. This bug
did not affect Octave.


Q/A:
 - portlint -AC: OK
 - poudriere builds for {10.3,10.4,11.0,11.1}{i386,amd64}: OK

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