curl/maketgz, branch gemini-meta

maketgz: delete .bak files, fix indentation

2018-06-15T23:28:34+00:00

Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2660

Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2662

maketgz: fix sed issues on OSX

2018-06-14T21:17:38+00:00

maketgz creates release tarballs and removes the -DEV string in curl
version (e.g. 7.58.0-DEV), else -DEV shows up on command line when curl
is run. maketgz works fine on linux but fails on OSX. Problem is with
the sed commands that use option -i without an extension. Maketgz
expects GNU sed instead of BSD and this simply won't work on OSX. Adding
a backup extension .bak after -i fixes this issue

Running the script as if on OSX gives this error:

sed: -e: No such file or directory

Adding a .bak extension resolves it

Closes #2660

maketgz: remove old *.dist files before making the tarball

2017-08-10T20:56:49+00:00

To avoid "old crap" unintentionally getting shipped.

Bug: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2017-08/0050.html
Reported-by: Christian Weisgerber

maketgz: switch to -6e for xz

2017-06-23T22:04:58+00:00

To reduce the memory requirement for decompress, and still do almost as
good compression as with -9e.

Pointed-out-by: Dan Fandrich

maketgz: switch to xz instead of lzma

2017-06-21T22:52:48+00:00

The compressed output size seems to be a tad bit smaller, but generally
xz seems more preferred these days and is used directly by for example
gentoo instead of bz2.

"Users of LZMA Utils should move to XZ Utils" =>
https://tukaani.org/lzma/

Closes #1604

dist: make the hugehelp.c not get regenerated unnecessarily

2017-06-14T14:44:37+00:00

The maketgz script now makes sure the generated hugehelp.c file in the
tarball is newer than the generated curl.1 man page, so that it doesn't
have to get unnecessarily rebuilt first thing in a typical build. It
thus also removes the need for perl to build off a plain release
tarball.

Fixes #1565

curl: show the libcurl release date in --version output

2017-05-14T15:10:04+00:00

... and support and additional "security patched" date for those who
enhance older versions that way. Pass on the define CURL_PATCHSTAMP with
a date for that.

Building with non-release headers shows the date as [unreleased].

Also: this changes the date format generated in the curlver.h file to be
"YYYY-MM-DD" (no name of the day or month, no time, no time zone) to
make it easier on the eye and easier to parse. Example (new) date
string: 2017-05-09

Suggested-by: Brian Childs

Closes #1474

maketgz: Run updatemanpages.pl to update man pages

2017-03-07T22:36:17+00:00

maketgz now runs scripts/updatemanpages.pl to update the man pages .TH
section to use the current date and curl/libcurl version.

(TODO Section 3.1)

Closes #1058

VC: remove the makefile.vc6 build infra

2017-01-23T13:27:32+00:00

The winbuild/ build files is now the single MSVC makefile build choice.

Closes #1215

maketgz: make it support "only" generating version info

2016-10-17T07:29:46+00:00

... to allow you to update the local repository with the given version
number data.