--- pycurl-7.19.0.orig/src/pycurl.c
+++ pycurl-7.19.0/src/pycurl.c
@@ -3450,7 +3450,7 @@ initpycurl(void)
 
     /* Add version strings to the module */
     insstr(d, "version", curl_version());
-    insstr(d, "COMPILE_DATE", __DATE__ " " __TIME__);
+    //insstr(d, "COMPILE_DATE", __DATE__ " " __TIME__);
     insint(d, "COMPILE_PY_VERSION_HEX", PY_VERSION_HEX);
     insint(d, "COMPILE_LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM", LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM);
 
@@ -3883,6 +3883,7 @@ initpycurl(void)
     insint_s(d, "LOCK_DATA_COOKIE", CURL_LOCK_DATA_COOKIE);
     insint_s(d, "LOCK_DATA_DNS", CURL_LOCK_DATA_DNS);
 
+#if 0
     /* Check the version, as this has caused nasty problems in
      * some cases. */
     vi = curl_version_info(CURLVERSION_NOW);
@@ -3894,6 +3895,7 @@ initpycurl(void)
         Py_FatalError("pycurl: libcurl link-time version is older than compile-time version");
         assert(0);
     }
+#endif
 
     /* Initialize callback locks if ssl is enabled */
 #if defined(PYCURL_NEED_SSL_TSL)