1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index e174472ce8..7f3aa03fb1 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -138,7 +138,14 @@ INITIALISATION
       <contains string="${java.version}" substring="1.4"/>
     </condition>
   <!-- Finding out SVN revision -->
-    <exec executable="svnversion" outputproperty="svn.number"/>
+    <loadfile
+      property="entries"
+      srcFile="${basedir}/.svn/entries"
+      failonerror="false"/>
+    <propertyregex
+      property="svn.number" input="${entries}" select="\1"
+      regexp="revision=\042([0-9]*)\042\.*"
+      defaultValue="x"/>
     <property name="init.avail" value="yes"/>
   <!-- Printing out some information about what environment I am running in -->
     <echo level="info"