configure.ac          | 4 ++--
 owampd/owampd.c       | 2 +-
 owping/owping.c       | 2 +-
 powstream/powstream.c | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 5832984..475e7f2 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([no-define foreign])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(owamp/context.c)
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(owamp/config.h)
 
-AC_DEFINE(PATCH_LEVEL, 1, "The RPM version number")
-AC_SUBST(PATCH_LEVEL, 1)
+AC_SUBST(PATCH_LEVEL)
+AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(PATCH_LEVEL, "$PATCH_LEVEL", "The RPM version number")
  
 TOP_BUILD_DIRS=""
 
diff --git a/owampd/owampd.c b/owampd/owampd.c
index 90ad3c6..5f2260e 100644
--- a/owampd/owampd.c
+++ b/owampd/owampd.c
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ usage(
             "\n"
            );
     if (PATCH_LEVEL) {
-        fprintf(stderr, "\nVersion: %s-%d\n\n", PACKAGE_VERSION, PATCH_LEVEL);
+        fprintf(stderr, "\nVersion: %s-%s\n\n", PACKAGE_VERSION, PATCH_LEVEL);
     }
     else {
         fprintf(stderr, "\nVersion: %s\n\n", PACKAGE_VERSION);
diff --git a/owping/owping.c b/owping/owping.c
index c15227f..933cc76 100644
--- a/owping/owping.c
+++ b/owping/owping.c
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ usage(
     }
 
     if (PATCH_LEVEL) {
-        fprintf(stderr, "\nVersion: %s-%d\n\n", PACKAGE_VERSION, PATCH_LEVEL);
+        fprintf(stderr, "\nVersion: %s-%s\n\n", PACKAGE_VERSION, PATCH_LEVEL);
     }
     else {
         fprintf(stderr, "\nVersion: %s\n\n", PACKAGE_VERSION);
diff --git a/powstream/powstream.c b/powstream/powstream.c
index fcfb870..4372427 100644
--- a/powstream/powstream.c
+++ b/powstream/powstream.c
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ usage(
     print_output_args();
 
     if (PATCH_LEVEL) {
-        fprintf(stderr, "\nVersion: %s-%d\n\n", PACKAGE_VERSION, PATCH_LEVEL);
+        fprintf(stderr, "\nVersion: %s-%s\n\n", PACKAGE_VERSION, PATCH_LEVEL);
     }
     else {
         fprintf(stderr, "\nVersion: %s\n\n", PACKAGE_VERSION);