Index: build/getversion.py
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--- build/getversion.py	(revision 26949)
+++ build/getversion.py	(working copy)
@@ -42,8 +42,14 @@
   p.search('SVN_VER_MINOR', 'minor')
   p.search('SVN_VER_PATCH', 'patch')
 
-  import os, sys
-  r = p.parse(sys.argv[1])
+  import sys
+  if len(sys.argv) == 2:
+    include_file = sys.argv[1]
+  else:
+    print >> sys.stderr, "Usage: %s svn_version_header_file" % sys.argv[0]
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+  r = p.parse(include_file)
   sys.stdout.write("%d.%d.%d" % (r.major, r.minor, r.patch))