Index: trunk/ppMerge/src/Makefile.am
===================================================================
--- trunk/ppMerge/src/Makefile.am	(revision 23195)
+++ trunk/ppMerge/src/Makefile.am	(revision 23229)
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 bin_PROGRAMS = ppMerge
 
-PPMERGE_VERSION=`if [ -e ../../VERSION ]; then cat ../../VERSION; else svnversion; fi`
-PPMERGE_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`
-PPMERGE_SOURCE=`if [ -e ../../SOURCE ]; then cat ../../SOURCE; else svn info | sed -n -e 's/Repository UUID: // p'; fi`
+# PPMERGE_VERSION=`if [ -e ../../VERSION ]; then cat ../../VERSION; else svnversion; fi`
+# PPMERGE_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`
+# PPMERGE_SOURCE=`if [ -e ../../SOURCE ]; then cat ../../SOURCE; else svn info | sed -n -e 's/Repository UUID: // p'; fi`
+# 
+# # Force recompilation of ppMergeVersion.c, since it gets the version information
+# ppMergeVersion.c: FORCE
+# 	touch ppMergeVersion.c
+# FORCE: ;
 
-# Force recompilation of ppMergeVersion.c, since it gets the version information
-ppMergeVersion.c: FORCE
-	touch ppMergeVersion.c
-FORCE: ;
-
-ppMerge_CFLAGS = $(PPMERGE_CFLAGS) $(PPSTATS_CFLAGS) $(PSMODULE_CFLAGS) $(PSLIB_CFLAGS) -DPPMERGE_VERSION=\"$(PPMERGE_VERSION)\" -DPPMERGE_BRANCH=\"$(PPMERGE_BRANCH)\" -DPPMERGE_SOURCE=\"$(PPMERGE_SOURCE)\"
+ppMerge_CFLAGS = $(PPMERGE_CFLAGS) $(PPSTATS_CFLAGS) $(PSMODULE_CFLAGS) $(PSLIB_CFLAGS) -DPPMERGE_VERSION=$(SVN_VERSION) -DPPMERGE_BRANCH=$(SVN_BRANCH) -DPPMERGE_SOURCE=$(SVN_SOURCE)
 ppMerge_LDFLAGS = $(PPMERGE_LIBS) $(PPSTATS_LIBS) $(PSMODULE_LIBS) $(PSLIB_LIBS)
 
Index: trunk/ppMerge/src/ppMergeVersion.c
===================================================================
--- trunk/ppMerge/src/ppMergeVersion.c	(revision 23195)
+++ trunk/ppMerge/src/ppMergeVersion.c	(revision 23229)
@@ -22,6 +22,4 @@
 #include "ppMergeVersion.h"
 
-psString ppMergeVersion(void)
-{
 #ifndef PPMERGE_VERSION
 #error "PPMERGE_VERSION is not set"
@@ -30,13 +28,21 @@
 #error "PPMERGE_BRANCH is not set"
 #endif
-    return psStringCopy(PPMERGE_BRANCH "@" PPMERGE_VERSION);
+#ifndef PPMERGE_SOURCE
+#error "PPMERGE_SOURCE is not set"
+#endif
+
+#define xstr(s) str(s)
+#define str(s) #s
+
+psString ppMergeVersion(void)
+{
+    char *value = NULL;
+    psStringAppend(&value, "%s@%s", xstr(PPMERGE_BRANCH), xstr(PPMERGE_VERSION));
+    return value;
 }
 
 psString ppMergeSource(void)
 {
-#ifndef PPMERGE_SOURCE
-#error "PPMERGE_SOURCE is not set"
-#endif
-    return psStringCopy(PPMERGE_SOURCE);
+    return psStringCopy(xstr(PPMERGE_SOURCE));
 }