Index: trunk/ppSim/src/Makefile.am
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--- trunk/ppSim/src/Makefile.am	(revision 18011)
+++ trunk/ppSim/src/Makefile.am	(revision 23139)
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 bin_PROGRAMS = ppSim ppSimSequence
 
-ppSim_CPPFLAGS = $(PSLIB_CFLAGS) $(PSMODULE_CFLAGS) $(PSPHOT_CFLAGS) $(PSASTRO_CFLAGS) $(ppSim_CFLAGS)
+PPSIM_VERSION=`if [ -e ../../VERSION ]; then cat ../../VERSION; else svnversion; fi`
+PPSIM_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`
+PPSIM_SOURCE=`if [ -e ../../SOURCE ]; then cat ../../SOURCE; else svn info | sed -n -e 's/Repository UUID: // p'; fi`
+
+# Force recompilation of ppSimVersion.c, since it gets the version information
+ppSimVersion.c: FORCE
+	touch ppSimVersion.c
+FORCE: ;
+
+ppSim_CPPFLAGS = $(PSLIB_CFLAGS) $(PSMODULE_CFLAGS) $(PSPHOT_CFLAGS) $(PSASTRO_CFLAGS) $(ppSim_CFLAGS) -DPPSIM_VERSION=\"$(PPSIM_VERSION)\" -DPPSIM_BRANCH=\"$(PPSIM_BRANCH)\" -DPPSIM_SOURCE=\"$(PPSIM_SOURCE)\"
 ppSim_LDFLAGS = $(PSLIB_LIBS) $(PSMODULE_LIBS) $(PSPHOT_LIBS) $(PSASTRO_LIBS)
 ppSim_SOURCES = \
@@ -35,5 +44,6 @@
 	ppSimMosaicChip.c	  \
 	ppSimRandomGaussian.c	  \
-	ppSimBadPixels.c
+	ppSimBadPixels.c          \
+	ppSimVersion.c
 
 ppSimSequence_CPPFLAGS = $(PSLIB_CFLAGS) $(PSMODULE_CFLAGS) $(PSASTRO_CFLAGS) $(ppSim_CFLAGS)