diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 24f2b03bf5..1d0c5b2ece 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@
 # This is just a stub for the Unix configure script, to provide support for
 # doing "./configure" in the top Vim directory.
 
-cd src && ./configure "$@"
+cd src && exec ./configure "$@"
diff --git a/src/configure b/src/configure
index f9f65fa36c..d8595a5244 100755
--- a/src/configure
+++ b/src/configure
@@ -2,5 +2,9 @@
 # run the automatically generated configure script
 CONFIG_STATUS=auto/config.status \
 	auto/configure "$@" --srcdir="${srcdir:-.}" --cache-file=auto/config.cache
+result=$?
+
 # Stupid autoconf 2.5x causes this file to be left behind.
 if test -f configure.lineno; then rm -f configure.lineno; fi
+
+exit $result
diff --git a/src/version.c b/src/version.c
index 785af8d519..f57cdc7bbf 100644
--- a/src/version.c
+++ b/src/version.c
@@ -666,6 +666,8 @@ static char *(features[]) =
 
 static int included_patches[] =
 {   /* Add new patch number below this line */
+/**/
+    47,
 /**/
     46,
 /**/