diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 7e478ca..73a30b5 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -67,13 +67,7 @@ GENERATED_DOCS:=README.html
 ifneq ($(wildcard .version),)
   DAHDIVERSION:=$(shell cat .version)
 else
-ifneq ($(wildcard .svn),)
   DAHDIVERSION:=$(shell build_tools/make_version . dahdi/linux)
-else
-ifneq ($(wildcard .git),)
-  DAHDIVERSION:=$(shell build_tools/make_version . dahdi/linux)
-endif
-endif
 endif
 
 all: modules
diff --git a/build_tools/make_version b/build_tools/make_version
index b9bb29f..d06a6bc 100755
--- a/build_tools/make_version
+++ b/build_tools/make_version
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ elif [ -d ${1}/.git ]; then
     MODIFIED=""
     SVN_REV=`git log --pretty=full -1 | grep -F "git-svn-id:" | sed -e "s/.*\@\([^\s]*\)\s.*/\1/g"`
     if [ -z "$SVN_REV" ]; then
-        VERSION=`git describe --long --always --tags --dirty=M 2> /dev/null`
+        VERSION=`git describe --tags --dirty=M 2> /dev/null`
         if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
             if [ "`git ls-files -m | wc -l`" != "0" ]; then
                 MODIFIED="M"
@@ -115,4 +115,8 @@ elif [ -d ${1}/.git ]; then
 
         echo SVN-${RESULT##-}-r${SVN_REV}${MODIFIED}
     fi
+else
+	# Use the directory information in the absence of any other version
+	# information
+	pwd -P
 fi