diff -r e0816bfc311b -r f1326505e3e5 configure
--- a/configure	Wed Jan 16 21:41:53 2008 +0000
+++ b/configure	Sun Apr 13 22:46:02 2008 +0000
@@ -121,6 +121,21 @@
 #---------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Some sanity checks, now
 
+# If this version is a svn snapshot, try to get the revision number
+# If we can't get the revision number, use date
+case "${VERSION}" in
+  *+svn)
+    REVISION=$(LANG=C svn info 2>/dev/null |egrep 'Revision: ' |cut -d ' ' -f 2-)
+    if [ -n "${REVISION}" ]; then
+      URL=$(LANG=C svn info 2>/dev/null |egrep 'URL: ' |cut -d ' ' -f 2-)
+      ROOT=$(LANG=C svn info 2>/dev/null |egrep 'Repository Root: ' |cut -d ' ' -f 3-)
+      VERSION="${VERSION}:${URL#${ROOT}}@${REVISION}"
+    else
+      VERSION="${VERSION}:unknown@$(date +%Y%m%d.%H%M%S)"
+    fi
+    ;;
+esac
+
 # Check bash is present, and at least version 3.0
 [ -x /bin/bash ] || do_error "bash 3.0 or above was not found in /bin/bash"
 bash_version=$(/bin/bash -c 'echo ${BASH_VERSION}')