Index: trunk/ppStack/src/Makefile.am
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--- trunk/ppStack/src/Makefile.am	(revision 19337)
+++ trunk/ppStack/src/Makefile.am	(revision 23143)
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 bin_PROGRAMS = ppStack
 
-ppStack_CFLAGS 	= $(PSLIB_CFLAGS) $(PSMODULE_CFLAGS) $(PSPHOT_CFLAGS) $(PPSTATS_CFLAGS) $(PPSTACK_CFLAGS)
+PPSTACK_VERSION=`if [ -e ../../VERSION ]; then cat ../../VERSION; else svnversion; fi`
+PPSTACK_BRANCH=`if [ -e ../../BRANCH ]; then cat ../../BRANCH; else svn info | sed -n -e '/URL:/ h' -e '/Repository Root:/ { x; H; x; s|Repository Root: \(.*\)\nURL: \1\(.*\)|\2| ; s|^/|| ; s|/[a-zA-Z]*/src.*|| ; p }'; fi`
+PPSTACK_SOURCE=`if [ -e ../../SOURCE ]; then cat ../../SOURCE; else svn info | sed -n -e 's/Repository UUID: // p'; fi`
+
+# Force recompilation of ppStackVersion.c, since it gets the version information
+ppStackVersion.c: FORCE
+	touch ppStackVersion.c
+FORCE: ;
+
+ppStack_CFLAGS 	= $(PSLIB_CFLAGS) $(PSMODULE_CFLAGS) $(PSPHOT_CFLAGS) $(PPSTATS_CFLAGS) $(PPSTACK_CFLAGS) -DPPSTACK_VERSION=\"$(PPSTACK_VERSION)\" -DPPSTACK_BRANCH=\"$(PPSTACK_BRANCH)\" -DPPSTACK_SOURCE=\"$(PPSTACK_SOURCE)\"
 ppStack_LDFLAGS = $(PSLIB_LIBS)   $(PSMODULE_LIBS)   $(PSPHOT_LIBS)   $(PPSTATS_LIBS)   $(PPSTACK_LIBS)