diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5158cdd2b..fb4615920 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2013-07-22  Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@adacore.com>
+
+	* src-release (VER): Use $(TOOL)/common/create-version.sh
+	if it exists.
+
 2013-07-10  Jack Howarth  <howarth@bromo.med.uc.edu>
 
 	PR target/57792
diff --git a/src-release b/src-release
index c388cbe5a..cf6d266a2 100644
--- a/src-release
+++ b/src-release
@@ -70,6 +70,12 @@ VER = `	if grep 'AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.*BFD_VERSION' $(TOOL)/configure.in >/dev/null
 	  bfd/configure --version | sed -n -e '1s,.* ,,p'; \
 	elif grep AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE $(TOOL)/configure.in >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
 	  sed < $(TOOL)/configure.in -n 's/AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE[^,]*, *\([^)]*\))/\1/p'; \
+	elif test -f $(TOOL)/common/create-version.sh; then \
+	  $(TOOL)/common/create-version.sh $(TOOL) \
+	    'dummy-host' 'dummy-target' \
+	    VER.tmp; \
+	  cat VER.tmp | grep 'version\[\]' | sed 's/.*"\([^"]*\)".*/\1/'; \
+          rm -f VER.tmp; \
 	elif test -f $(TOOL)/version.in; then \
 	  head -1 $(TOOL)/version.in; \
 	elif grep VERSION $(TOOL)/Makefile.in > /dev/null 2>&1; then \