From c18d75f39d8e73acc6382607d2cdebade76e728a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alcaro <floating@muncher.se>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 19:20:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Get rid of fragile escaping shenanigans.

---
 Makefile.common | 2 +-
 git_version.c   | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile.common b/Makefile.common
index 02488e35d4..aaf34763e2 100644
--- a/Makefile.common
+++ b/Makefile.common
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ endif
 
 GIT_VERSION := $(shell git rev-parse --short HEAD 2>/dev/null)
 ifneq ($(GIT_VERSION),)
-   DEFINES += -DHAVE_GIT_VERSION -DGIT_VERSION="\"$(GIT_VERSION)\""
+   DEFINES += -DHAVE_GIT_VERSION -DGIT_VERSION=$(GIT_VERSION)
    OBJ += git_version.o
 endif
 
diff --git a/git_version.c b/git_version.c
index 92e2fe0c06..6ea0dd2987 100644
--- a/git_version.c
+++ b/git_version.c
@@ -14,5 +14,7 @@
  */
 
 #include "git_version.h"
-const char rarch_git_version[] = GIT_VERSION;
+#define STR_(x) #x
+#define STR(x) STR_(x)
+const char rarch_git_version[] = STR(GIT_VERSION);