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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Determine the version string to build into a binary.
+# When building in the git repository, we can use the output 
+# of "git describe" which gives an unequivocal answer.
+#
+# Failing that, we use the contents of the VERSION file
+# which has a set of references substituted into it by git.
+# If we can find one which matches $v[0-9].* then we assume it's
+# a version-number tag, else we just use the whole string.
+# If there is more than one v[0-9].* tag, sort them and use the
+# first. This favours, eg v2.63 over 2.63rc6.
+
+if which git >/dev/null 2>&1 && \
+    ([ -d $1/.git ] || grep '^gitdir:' $1/.git >/dev/null 2>&1); then 
+    cd $1; git describe | sed 's/^v//'
+elif grep '\$Format:%d\$' $1/VERSION >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+# unsubstituted VERSION, but no git available.
+    echo UNKNOWN
+else
+     vers=`cat $1/VERSION | sed 's/[(), ]/,/ g' | tr ',' '\n' | grep ^v[0-9]`
+
+     if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+         echo "${vers}" | sort -r | head -n 1 | sed 's/^v//'
+     else
+         cat $1/VERSION
+     fi
+fi
+
+exit 0
+