NHD-4.3CTP-SHIELD-V - Examples still won't compile

Looking through old posts there was an issue with the FTD_801  examples compiling relating to an avr/gcc update in the past.

Well it seems a year later, there is now a new problem where even the "Hello World" example (or any of the others) won't compile.  It seems a bit much to have to wade through the driver libraries with a basic problem such as this just to make the product work, and I am distinctly unimpressed.  No care has been taken to keep the examples in step with Arduino updates.  I have requested a return for the two displays I ordered and ordered a Nextion display instead, but it might be nice if libraries that compile with the latest development environments could be supplied, then I might consider using these displays for our current projects.

These are the errors that the compiler barfs out, looks like the code has major declaration problems.  I tried to role back to an older IDE on the host Raspberry Pi I am using with the Arduino, but it doesn't work either.

In file included from HelloWorld.ino:30:0:

/usr/share/arduino/libraries/FTDI_FT801/FT_NHD_43CTP_SHIELD.h:44:37: error: conflicting declaration ‘typedef const unsigned char prog_uchar’
 typedef PROGMEM const unsigned char prog_uchar;
                                     ^
In file included from /usr/share/arduino/hardware/arduino/cores/arduino/Arduino.h:8:0,
                 from /usr/share/arduino/libraries/SPI/SPI.h:15,
                 from HelloWorld.ino:26:
/usr/lib/avr/include/avr/pgmspace.h:351:23: note: previous declaration as ‘typedef unsigned char prog_uchar’
 typedef unsigned char prog_uchar __attribute__((__progmem__,deprecated("prog_uchar type is deprecated.")));
                       ^
In file included from HelloWorld.ino:30:0:
/usr/share/arduino/libraries/FTDI_FT801/FT_NHD_43CTP_SHIELD.h:45:28: error: conflicting declaration ‘typedef const char prog_char’
 typedef PROGMEM const char prog_char;
                            ^
In file included from /usr/share/arduino/hardware/arduino/cores/arduino/Arduino.h:8:0,
                 from /usr/share/arduino/libraries/SPI/SPI.h:15,
                 from HelloWorld.ino:26:
/usr/lib/avr/include/avr/pgmspace.h:350:14: note: previous declaration as ‘typedef char prog_char’
 typedef char prog_char __attribute__((__progmem__,deprecated("prog_char type is deprecated.")));
              ^
In file included from HelloWorld.ino:30:0:
/usr/share/arduino/libraries/FTDI_FT801/FT_NHD_43CTP_SHIELD.h:46:36: error: conflicting declaration ‘typedef const unsigned int prog_uint16_t’
 typedef PROGMEM const unsigned int prog_uint16_t;
                                    ^
In file included from /usr/share/arduino/hardware/arduino/cores/arduino/Arduino.h:8:0,
                 from /usr/share/arduino/libraries/SPI/SPI.h:15,
                 from HelloWorld.ino:26:
/usr/lib/avr/include/avr/pgmspace.h:355:19: note: previous declaration as ‘typedef uint16_t prog_uint16_t’
 typedef uint16_t  prog_uint16_t __attribute__((__progmem__,deprecated("prog_uint16_t type is deprecated.")));
                   ^
In file included from HelloWorld.ino:30:0:
/usr/share/arduino/libraries/FTDI_FT801/FT_NHD_43CTP_SHIELD.h:47:37: error: conflicting declaration ‘typedef const long unsigned int prog_uint32_t’
 typedef PROGMEM const unsigned long prog_uint32_t;
                                     ^
In file included from /usr/share/arduino/hardware/arduino/cores/arduino/Arduino.h:8:0,
                 from /usr/share/arduino/libraries/SPI/SPI.h:15,
                 from HelloWorld.ino:26:
/usr/lib/avr/include/avr/pgmspace.h:357:19: note: previous declaration as ‘typedef uint32_t prog_uint32_t’
 typedef uint32_t  prog_uint32_t __attribute__((__progmem__,deprecated("prog_uint32_t type is deprecated.")));
                   ^
In file included from /usr/share/arduino/libraries/FTDI_FT801/FT_NHD_43CTP_SHIELD.h:73:0,
                 from HelloWorld.ino:30:
/usr/share/arduino/libraries/FTDI_FT801/libraries/FT_GC/FT_GC.h:372:71: error: redeclaration of ‘FT_Status FT_GC<FT_Trans>::Init(uint8_t, uint16_t)’ may not have default arguments [-fpermissive]
 FT_Status FT_GC<FT_Trans>::Init(uint8_t ResType, uint16_t options1 = 0)
                                                                       ^
In file included from /usr/share/arduino/libraries/FTDI_FT801/FT_NHD_43CTP_SHIELD.h:73:0,
                 from HelloWorld.ino:30:
/usr/share/arduino/libraries/FTDI_FT801/libraries/FT_GC/FT_GC.h:410:258: error: redeclaration of ‘FT_Status FT_GC<FT_Trans>::Init(uint16_t, uint16_t, uint16_t, uint16_t, uint16_t, uint16_t, uint16_t, uint16_t, uint8_t, uint8_t, uint8_t, uint16_t)’ may not have default arguments [-fpermissive]
 FT_Status FT_GC<FT_Trans>::Init(uint16_t hperiod,uint16_t vperiod,uint16_t hfrontporch,uint16_t hbackporch,uint16_t hpulsewidth,uint16_t vfrontporch,uint16_t vbackporch,uint16_t vpulsewidth,uint8_t polarity,uint8_t swizzle,uint8_t fps, uint16_t options1 = 0)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  ^
In file included from /usr/share/arduino/libraries/FTDI_FT801/FT_NHD_43CTP_SHIELD.h:74:0,
                 from HelloWorld.ino:30:
/usr/share/arduino/libraries/FTDI_FT801/libraries/FT_GC/FT801/FT801Impl.h:124:73: error: redeclaration of ‘FT_Status FT801Impl<FT_Trans>::Init(uint8_t, uint16_t)’ may not have default arguments [-fpermissive]
 FT_Status FT801Impl<FT_Trans>::Init(uint8_t ResType, uint16_t options1=0)
                                                                         ^
/usr/share/arduino/libraries/FTDI_FT801/libraries/FT_GC/FT801/FT801Impl.h:133:71: error: redeclaration of ‘FT_Status FT801Impl<FT_Trans>::Init(uint16_t, uint16_t, uint16_t, uint16_t, uint16_t, uint16_t, uint16_t, uint16_t, uint8_t, uint8_t, uint8_t, uint16_t)’ may not have default arguments [-fpermissive]
       uint8_t polarity,uint8_t swizzle,uint8_t fps,uint16_t options1=0)
                                                                       ^