diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 7c99fb33..b5f714d8 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
 AC_INIT([procps-ng],
-	[3.3.2],
+	m4_esyscmd([tools/git-version-gen .tarball-version]),
 	[procps@freelists.org],,[http://gitorious.org/procps])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([free.c])
diff --git a/tools/git-version-gen b/tools/git-version-gen
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..171767f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/git-version-gen
@@ -0,0 +1,181 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Print a version string.
+scriptversion=2011-02-19.19; # UTC
+
+# Copyright (C) 2007-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# This script is derived from GIT-VERSION-GEN from GIT: http://git.or.cz/.
+# It may be run two ways:
+# - from a git repository in which the "git describe" command below
+#   produces useful output (thus requiring at least one signed tag)
+# - from a non-git-repo directory containing a .tarball-version file, which
+#   presumes this script is invoked like "./git-version-gen .tarball-version".
+
+# In order to use intra-version strings in your project, you will need two
+# separate generated version string files:
+#
+# .tarball-version - present only in a distribution tarball, and not in
+#   a checked-out repository.  Created with contents that were learned at
+#   the last time autoconf was run, and used by git-version-gen.  Must not
+#   be present in either $(srcdir) or $(builddir) for git-version-gen to
+#   give accurate answers during normal development with a checked out tree,
+#   but must be present in a tarball when there is no version control system.
+#   Therefore, it cannot be used in any dependencies.  GNUmakefile has
+#   hooks to force a reconfigure at distribution time to get the value
+#   correct, without penalizing normal development with extra reconfigures.
+#
+# .version - present in a checked-out repository and in a distribution
+#   tarball.  Usable in dependencies, particularly for files that don't
+#   want to depend on config.h but do want to track version changes.
+#   Delete this file prior to any autoconf run where you want to rebuild
+#   files to pick up a version string change; and leave it stale to
+#   minimize rebuild time after unrelated changes to configure sources.
+#
+# It is probably wise to add these two files to .gitignore, so that you
+# don't accidentally commit either generated file.
+#
+# Use the following line in your configure.ac, so that $(VERSION) will
+# automatically be up-to-date each time configure is run (and note that
+# since configure.ac no longer includes a version string, Makefile rules
+# should not depend on configure.ac for version updates).
+#
+# AC_INIT([GNU project],
+#         m4_esyscmd([build-aux/git-version-gen .tarball-version]),
+#         [bug-project@example])
+#
+# Then use the following lines in your Makefile.am, so that .version
+# will be present for dependencies, and so that .tarball-version will
+# exist in distribution tarballs.
+#
+# BUILT_SOURCES = $(top_srcdir)/.version
+# $(top_srcdir)/.version:
+#	echo $(VERSION) > $@-t && mv $@-t $@
+# dist-hook:
+#	echo $(VERSION) > $(distdir)/.tarball-version
+
+case $# in
+    1|2) ;;
+    *) echo 1>&2 "Usage: $0 \$srcdir/.tarball-version" \
+         '[TAG-NORMALIZATION-SED-SCRIPT]'
+       exit 1;;
+esac
+
+tarball_version_file=$1
+tag_sed_script="${2:-s/x/x/}"
+nl='
+'
+
+# Avoid meddling by environment variable of the same name.
+v=
+v_from_git=
+
+# First see if there is a tarball-only version file.
+# then try "git describe", then default.
+if test -f $tarball_version_file
+then
+    v=`cat $tarball_version_file` || v=
+    case $v in
+        *$nl*) v= ;; # reject multi-line output
+        [0-9]*) ;;
+        *) v= ;;
+    esac
+    test -z "$v" \
+        && echo "$0: WARNING: $tarball_version_file is missing or damaged" 1>&2
+fi
+
+if test -n "$v"
+then
+    : # use $v
+# Otherwise, if there is at least one git commit involving the working
+# directory, and "git describe" output looks sensible, use that to
+# derive a version string.
+elif test "`git log -1 --pretty=format:x . 2>&1`" = x \
+    && v=`git describe --abbrev=4 --match='v*' HEAD 2>/dev/null \
+          || git describe --abbrev=4 HEAD 2>/dev/null` \
+    && v=`printf '%s\n' "$v" | sed "$tag_sed_script"` \
+    && case $v in
+         v[0-9]*) ;;
+         *) (exit 1) ;;
+       esac
+then
+    # Is this a new git that lists number of commits since the last
+    # tag or the previous older version that did not?
+    #   Newer: v6.10-77-g0f8faeb
+    #   Older: v6.10-g0f8faeb
+    case $v in
+        *-rc[0-9]) ;; # release candidate
+        *-*-*) : git describe is okay three part flavor ;;
+        *-*)
+            : git describe is older two part flavor
+            # Recreate the number of commits and rewrite such that the
+            # result is the same as if we were using the newer version
+            # of git describe.
+            vtag=`echo "$v" | sed 's/-.*//'`
+            commit_list=`git rev-list "$vtag"..HEAD 2>/dev/null` \
+                || { commit_list=failed;
+                     echo "$0: WARNING: git rev-list failed" 1>&2; }
+            numcommits=`echo "$commit_list" | wc -l`
+            v=`echo "$v" | sed "s/\(.*\)-\(.*\)/\1-$numcommits-\2/"`;
+            test "$commit_list" = failed && v=UNKNOWN
+            ;;
+    esac
+
+    case $v in
+        *-rc[0-9])
+	    # Remove the "g" in git describe's output string, to save a byte.
+            v=`echo "$v" | sed 's/\(.*\)-g/\1-/'`;
+	    ;;
+        *)
+	    # Change the first '-' to a '.', so version-comparing tools work properly.
+	    # Remove the "g" in git describe's output string, to save a byte.
+	    v=`echo "$v" | sed 's/-/./;s/\(.*\)-g/\1-/'`;
+	    ;;
+    esac
+    v_from_git=1
+else
+    v=UNKNOWN
+fi
+
+v=`echo "$v" |sed 's/^v//'`
+
+# Test whether to append the "-dirty" suffix only if the version
+# string we're using came from git.  I.e., skip the test if it's "UNKNOWN"
+# or if it came from .tarball-version.
+if test -n "$v_from_git"; then
+  # Don't declare a version "dirty" merely because a time stamp has changed.
+  git update-index --refresh > /dev/null 2>&1
+
+  dirty=`exec 2>/dev/null;git diff-index --name-only HEAD` || dirty=
+  case "$dirty" in
+      '') ;;
+      *) # Append the suffix only if there isn't one already.
+          case $v in
+            *-dirty) ;;
+            *) v="$v-dirty" ;;
+          esac ;;
+  esac
+fi
+
+# Omit the trailing newline, so that m4_esyscmd can use the result directly.
+echo "$v" | tr -d "$nl"
+
+# Local variables:
+# eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)
+# time-stamp-start: "scriptversion="
+# time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d.%02H"
+# time-stamp-time-zone: "UTC"
+# time-stamp-end: "; # UTC"
+# End: