Index: Makefile
===================================================================
--- 58741c69570705801db4b785681790d636475695/Makefile  (mode:100644)
+++ uncommitted/Makefile  (mode:100644)
@@ -7,8 +7,16 @@
 # BREAK YOUR LOCAL DIFFS! show-diff and anything using it will likely randomly
 # break unless your underlying filesystem supports those sub-second times
 # (my ext3 doesn't).
+#
+VERSION = 0
+PATCHLEVEL = 5
+SUBLEVEL = 0
+EXTRAVERSION =
+
+RELEASE=$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)
+
 COPTS=-O2
-CFLAGS=-g $(COPTS) -Wall
+CFLAGS=-g $(COPTS) -Wall '-DVERSION="$(RELEASE)"'
 
 prefix=$(HOME)
 bin=$(prefix)/bin