diff -u strace-4.8.orig/configure.ac strace-4.8/configure.ac
--- strace-4.8.orig/configure.ac	2013-10-09 18:09:30.422701562 +0000
+++ strace-4.8/configure.ac	2013-10-09 18:10:22.316265565 +0000
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to create configure.  Use autoreconf.
 AC_PREREQ(2.57)
 AC_INIT([strace],
-	m4_esyscmd([./git-version-gen .tarball-version]),
 	[strace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([strace.c])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([.])
@@ -213,7 +212,6 @@
 	ioctls.h
 	linux/capability.h
 	linux/perf_event.h
-	linux/ptrace.h
 	linux/utsname.h
 	mqueue.h
 	netinet/sctp.h
@@ -231,6 +229,9 @@
 	sys/uio.h
 	sys/vfs.h
 ]))
+if test "$HAVE_LINUX_PTRACE_H" = ""; then
+	AC_CHECK_HEADER([linux/ptrace.h])
+fi
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS([linux/icmp.h linux/in6.h linux/netlink.h linux/if_packet.h],
                  [], [], [#include <stddef.h>
 #include <sys/socket.h>