diff --git a/bin/cdist b/bin/cdist
index 15127d2b..5c1239fb 100755
--- a/bin/cdist
+++ b/bin/cdist
@@ -22,4 +22,5 @@
 
 # Wrapper for real script to allow execution from checkout
 dir=${0%/*}
+"$dir/../build" version
 "$dir/../cdist.py" "$@"
diff --git a/build b/build
index 7d73224d..f8d6c74a 100755
--- a/build
+++ b/build
@@ -172,16 +172,8 @@ case "$1" in
         fi
     ;;
 
-    version-dynamic)
-        cd cdist/
-        ln -sf version_dynamic.py version.py
-    ;;
-
-    version-dist)
-        version=$(cat .version)
-        cd cdist/
-        echo "VERSION=\"$version\"" > version_static.py
-        ln -sf version_static.py version.py
+    version)
+        echo "VERSION=\"$version\"" > cdist/version.py
     ;;
 
     *)
diff --git a/cdist/version.py b/cdist/version.py
deleted file mode 120000
index 153cf043..00000000
--- a/cdist/version.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-version_dynamic.py
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/cdist/version_dynamic.py b/cdist/version_dynamic.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 5f69f374..00000000
--- a/cdist/version_dynamic.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-#
-# 2010-2012 Nico Schottelius (nico-cdist at schottelius.org)
-#
-# This file is part of cdist.
-#
-# cdist is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# cdist is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with cdist. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-#
-#
-
-import os
-import subprocess
-
-here = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
-VERSION = subprocess.check_output('cd "%s" && git describe' % here,
-    shell=True).decode('utf-8')