automatically include program version and print it from vty and --version
diff --git a/openbsc/configure.in b/openbsc/configure.in
index 71ed10b..9e3c486 100644
--- a/openbsc/configure.in
+++ b/openbsc/configure.in
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script
-AC_INIT
+AC_INIT([openbsc],
+ m4_esyscmd([./git-version-gen .tarball-version]),
+ [openbsc-devel@lists.openbsc.org])
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(openbsc, 0.0alpha1)
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([dist-bzip2])
dnl kernel style compile messages
m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES], [AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])])