diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index ad38726b4..96156b0be 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -148,7 +148,8 @@ INITIALISATION
       <os family="windows"/>
     </condition>
   <!-- Finding out SVN revision -->
-    <exec executable="svn" outputproperty="svn.out">
+    <exec executable="svn" outputproperty="svn.out"
+      failifexecutionfails="false">
       <arg line=" info ${basedir}"/>
     </exec>
     <propertyregex