diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.cvsignore
index 11a860d..f3ad195 100644
--- a/.cvsignore
+++ b/.cvsignore
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ pcre-5.0.tar.bz2
 pcre-6.3.tar.bz2
 pcre-6.6.tar.bz2
 pcre-6.7.tar.bz2
+pcre-7.3.tar.bz2
diff --git a/pcre-6.6-multilib.patch b/pcre-6.6-multilib.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index e3217d8..0000000
--- a/pcre-6.6-multilib.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
---- pcre-6.6/pcre-config.in.orig	2006-05-09 11:34:37.000000000 +0200
-+++ pcre-6.6/pcre-config.in	2006-05-09 11:36:09.000000000 +0200
-@@ -12,13 +12,6 @@
-       exit 1
- fi
- 
--libR=
--case `uname -s` in
--  *SunOS*)
--  libR=" -R@libdir@"
--  ;;
--esac
--
- while test $# -gt 0; do
-   case "$1" in
-   -*=*) optarg=`echo "$1" | sed 's/[-_a-zA-Z0-9]*=//'` ;;
-@@ -52,10 +45,10 @@
-       echo $includes
-       ;;
-     --libs-posix)
--      echo -L@libdir@$libR -lpcreposix -lpcre
-+      echo -lpcreposix -lpcre
-       ;;
-     --libs)
--      echo -L@libdir@$libR -lpcre
-+      echo -lpcre
-       ;;
-     *)
-       echo "${usage}" 1>&2
diff --git a/pcre-6.6-stack.patch b/pcre-6.6-stack.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ec4e1d9..0000000
--- a/pcre-6.6-stack.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- pcre-6.6/config.h.in.orig	2006-11-27 20:13:06.000000000 +0100
-+++ pcre-6.6/config.h.in	2006-11-27 20:14:31.000000000 +0100
-@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
- override this default default. */
- 
- #ifndef MATCH_LIMIT
--#define MATCH_LIMIT 10000000
-+#define MATCH_LIMIT 100000
- #endif
- 
- /* The above limit applies to all calls of match(), whether or not they
-@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
- "configure" can be used to override this default default. */
- 
- #ifndef MATCH_LIMIT_RECURSION
--#define MATCH_LIMIT_RECURSION MATCH_LIMIT
-+#define MATCH_LIMIT_RECURSION 10000
- #endif
- 
- /* End */
diff --git a/pcre.spec b/pcre.spec
index 1fab60d..c785c59 100644
--- a/pcre.spec
+++ b/pcre.spec
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ Release: 1
 Summary: Perl-compatible regular expression library
 URL: http://www.pcre.org/
 Source: ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
-Patch1: pcre-6.6-multilib.patch
 License: BSD
 Group: System Environment/Libraries
 BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index e4dde64..de15e3c 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-b97e3bb84bd665e0fbb7a90344d65a43  pcre-7.0.tar.bz2
+08b48bf97ff84a9dea07d6be518f0046  pcre-7.3.tar.bz2