Originally committed as revision 21067 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ fi
test $revision || revision=UNKNOWN
# releases extract the version number from the VERSION file
-version=$(cat VERSION 2> /dev/null)
+version=$(cd "$1" && cat VERSION 2> /dev/null)
test $version || version=$revision
test -n "$3" && version=$version-$3