When building tarballs, we also set the timestamp of the generated package. This is meant

to primarily be used for the autobuilds to know from what point in time a particular tarball
is, and thus what changes it contains (or not).

include/curl/curlver.h

@@ -53,4 +53,15 @@
 */
 #define LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM 0x071002
 
+/*
+ * This is the date and time when the full source package was created. The
+ * timestamp is not stored in CVS, as the timestamp is properly set in the
+ * tarballs by the maketgz script.
+ *
+ * The format of the date should follow this template:
+ *
+ * "Mon Feb 12 11:35:33 UTC 2007"
+ */
+#define LIBCURL_TIMESTAMP "CVS"
+
 #endif /* __CURL_CURLVER_H */

maketgz

@@ -23,12 +23,16 @@ numeric=`perl -e 'printf("%02x%02x%02x\n", '"$major, $minor, $patch);"`
 HEADER=include/curl/curlver.h
 CHEADER=src/version.h
 
+# requires a date command that knows -u for UTC time zone
+datestamp=`date -u`
+
 # Replace version number in header file:
 sed -e 's/^#define LIBCURL_VERSION .*/#define LIBCURL_VERSION "'$libversion'"/g' \
     -e 's/^#define LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM .*/#define LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM 0x'$numeric'/g' \
     -e 's/^#define LIBCURL_VERSION_MAJOR .*/#define LIBCURL_VERSION_MAJOR '$major'/g' \
     -e 's/^#define LIBCURL_VERSION_MINOR .*/#define LIBCURL_VERSION_MINOR '$minor'/g' \
     -e 's/^#define LIBCURL_VERSION_PATCH .*/#define LIBCURL_VERSION_PATCH '$patch'/g' \
+    -e "s/^#define LIBCURL_TIMESTAMP .*/#define LIBCURL_TIMESTAMP \"$datestamp\"/g" \
  $HEADER >$HEADER.dist
 
 # Replace version number in header file:
@@ -41,6 +45,7 @@ sed "s/7\.12\.3/$libversion/g" $PLIST > $PLIST.dist
 echo "curl version $curlversion"
 echo "libcurl version $libversion"
 echo "libcurl numerical $numeric"
+echo "datestamp $datestamp"
 
 findprog()
 {