1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/setlocalversion b/scripts/setlocalversion
index 64a9cb5556cd..e90a91cc5185 100755
--- a/scripts/setlocalversion
+++ b/scripts/setlocalversion
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ scm_version()
 
         # Check for mercurial and a mercurial repo.
         if hgid=`hg id 2>/dev/null`; then
-                tag=`printf '%s' "$hgid" | cut -d' ' -f2`
+                tag=`printf '%s' "$hgid" | cut -s -d' ' -f2`
 
                 # Do we have an untagged version?
                 if [ -z "$tag" -o "$tag" = tip ]; then