diff --git a/legacy/eio/AUTHORS b/legacy/eio/AUTHORS
index 52b280a82a..27d6bd6685 100644
--- a/legacy/eio/AUTHORS
+++ b/legacy/eio/AUTHORS
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbieri@gmail.com>
 Vincent "caro" Torri <vtorri at univ-evry dot fr>
 Mikael SANS <sans.mikael@gmail.com>
 Mike Blumenkrantz (zmike/discomfitor) <michael.blumenkrantz@gmail.com>
+Jérôme Pinot <ngc891@gmail.com>
diff --git a/legacy/eio/ChangeLog b/legacy/eio/ChangeLog
index 2763778d78..80dbd9c59f 100644
--- a/legacy/eio/ChangeLog
+++ b/legacy/eio/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
 2012-04-26 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
 
 	* 1.0.0 release
+
+2012-04-30 Jérôme Pinot
+
+	* Fix build out of tree.
diff --git a/legacy/eio/NEWS b/legacy/eio/NEWS
index 95b30b9caa..e449e56a9c 100644
--- a/legacy/eio/NEWS
+++ b/legacy/eio/NEWS
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Changes since Eio 1.0.0:
 Additions:
 
 Fixes:
+	- build out of tree.
 
 Improvements:
 
diff --git a/legacy/eio/configure.ac b/legacy/eio/configure.ac
index 96873f13e6..545928ec80 100644
--- a/legacy/eio/configure.ac
+++ b/legacy/eio/configure.ac
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 m4_define([v_maj], [1])
 m4_define([v_min], [0])
 m4_define([v_mic], [99])
-m4_define([v_rev], m4_esyscmd([(svnversion "${SVN_REPO_PATH:-.}" | grep -v export || echo 0) | awk -F : '{printf("%s\n", $1);}' | tr -d ' :MSP\n']))
+m4_define([v_rev], m4_esyscmd([(svnversion "${SVN_REPO_PATH:-.}" | grep -v '\(export\|Unversioned directory\)' || echo 0) | awk -F : '{printf("%s\n", $1);}' | tr -d ' :MSP\n']))
 m4_if(v_rev, [0], [m4_define([v_rev], m4_esyscmd([git log 2> /dev/null | (grep -m1 git-svn-id || echo 0) | sed -e 's/.*@\([0-9]*\).*/\1/' | tr -d '\n']))])
 ##--   When released, remove the dnl on the below line
 dnl m4_undefine([v_rev])
diff --git a/legacy/emotion/AUTHORS b/legacy/emotion/AUTHORS
index 1ba92aea0c..95af23a32d 100644
--- a/legacy/emotion/AUTHORS
+++ b/legacy/emotion/AUTHORS
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ Nicolas Aguirre <aguirre.nicolas@gmail.com>
 Sebastian Dransfeld <sd@tango.flipp.net>
 Cedric Bail <cedric.bail@free.fr>
 Rafael Antognolli <antognolli@profusion.mobi>
+Jérôme Pinot <ngc891@gmail.com>
diff --git a/legacy/emotion/ChangeLog b/legacy/emotion/ChangeLog
index 86fec86b58..e5c75444bb 100644
--- a/legacy/emotion/ChangeLog
+++ b/legacy/emotion/ChangeLog
@@ -33,3 +33,7 @@
 2012-04-26 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
 
 	* 1.0.0 release
+
+2012-04-30 Jérôme Pinot
+
+	* Fix build out of tree.
diff --git a/legacy/emotion/NEWS b/legacy/emotion/NEWS
index a687f5099c..e6e0f7ee0b 100644
--- a/legacy/emotion/NEWS
+++ b/legacy/emotion/NEWS
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Changes since Emotion 1.0.0:
 Additions:
 
 Fixes:
+	- build out of tree.
 
 Improvements:
 
diff --git a/legacy/emotion/configure.ac b/legacy/emotion/configure.ac
index 0840058ac5..770d9daf16 100644
--- a/legacy/emotion/configure.ac
+++ b/legacy/emotion/configure.ac
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 m4_define([v_maj], [1])
 m4_define([v_min], [0])
 m4_define([v_mic], [99])
-m4_define([v_rev], m4_esyscmd([(svnversion "${SVN_REPO_PATH:-.}" | grep -v export || echo 0) | awk -F : '{printf("%s\n", $1);}' | tr -d ' :MSP\n']))
+m4_define([v_rev], m4_esyscmd([(svnversion "${SVN_REPO_PATH:-.}" | grep -v '\(export\|Unversioned directory\)' || echo 0) | awk -F : '{printf("%s\n", $1);}' | tr -d ' :MSP\n']))
 m4_if(v_rev, [0], [m4_define([v_rev], m4_esyscmd([git log 2> /dev/null | (grep -m1 git-svn-id || echo 0) | sed -e 's/.*@\([0-9]*\).*/\1/' | tr -d '\n']))])
 ##--   When released, remove the dnl on the below line
 dnl m4_undefine([v_rev])
diff --git a/legacy/ethumb/AUTHORS b/legacy/ethumb/AUTHORS
index 373577216d..458f5a6825 100644
--- a/legacy/ethumb/AUTHORS
+++ b/legacy/ethumb/AUTHORS
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 Rafael Antognolli <antognolli@profusion.mobi>
 Cedric Bail <cedric.bail@free.fr>
 Mikael SANS <sans.mikael@gmail.com>
+Jérôme Pinot <ngc891@gmail.com>
diff --git a/legacy/ethumb/ChangeLog b/legacy/ethumb/ChangeLog
index 2763778d78..4396c44526 100644
--- a/legacy/ethumb/ChangeLog
+++ b/legacy/ethumb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
 2012-04-26 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
 
 	* 1.0.0 release
+
+2012-04-30 Jérôme Pinot
+
+	* Fix build out of tree configuration
diff --git a/legacy/ethumb/NEWS b/legacy/ethumb/NEWS
index 5376fccbac..4857ac9955 100644
--- a/legacy/ethumb/NEWS
+++ b/legacy/ethumb/NEWS
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Changes since Ethumb 1.0.0:
 Additions:
 
 Fixes:
+	- build out of tree.
 
 Improvements:
 
diff --git a/legacy/ethumb/configure.ac b/legacy/ethumb/configure.ac
index 76dc1d9428..126f09f361 100644
--- a/legacy/ethumb/configure.ac
+++ b/legacy/ethumb/configure.ac
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 m4_define([v_maj], [1])
 m4_define([v_min], [0])
 m4_define([v_mic], [99])
-m4_define([v_rev], m4_esyscmd([(svnversion "${SVN_REPO_PATH:-.}" | grep -v export || echo 0) | awk -F : '{printf("%s\n", $1);}' | tr -d ' :MSP\n']))
+m4_define([v_rev], m4_esyscmd([(svnversion "${SVN_REPO_PATH:-.}" | grep -v '\(export\|Unversioned directory\)' || echo 0) | awk -F : '{printf("%s\n", $1);}' | tr -d ' :MSP\n']))
 m4_if(v_rev, [0], [m4_define([v_rev], m4_esyscmd([git log 2> /dev/null | (grep -m1 git-svn-id || echo 0) | sed -e 's/.*@\([0-9]*\).*/\1/' | tr -d '\n']))])
 ##--   When released, remove the dnl on the below line
 dnl m4_undefine([v_rev])