diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2254d10d0..3a7eb4711 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2008-01-08  Christophe Romain  <christophe.romain@process-one.net>
+
+	* doc/Makefile: fix version.tex generation bug
+
 2008-01-01  Badlop  <badlop@process-one.net>
 
 	* src/web/ejabberd_web_admin.erl: Uniformize the name of
diff --git a/doc/Makefile b/doc/Makefile
index b579793c7..c5344ab5c 100644
--- a/doc/Makefile
+++ b/doc/Makefile
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ release:
 	@echo "Press any key to continue"
 	@read foo
 	@echo "% ejabberd version (automatically generated)." > version.tex
-	@echo "\\\newcommand{\\\version}{"`cat ../src/ejabberd.hrl | grep VERSION | sed s/-define\(VERSION,\ \"//g | sed s/\"\).//g`"}" >> version.tex
+	@echo "\newcommand{\version}{"`sed '/VERSION/!d;s/\(.*\)"\(.*\)"\(.*\)/\2/' ../src/ejabberd.hrl`"}" >> version.tex
 	@echo -n "% Contributed modules (automatically generated)."  > contributed_modules.tex
 	@echo "$(CONTRIBUTED_MODULES)" >> contributed_modules.tex