1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bin/spack b/bin/spack
index 1fd47d5e8c..081c76ca21 100755
--- a/bin/spack
+++ b/bin/spack
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import spack
 # Command parsing
 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
     description='Spack: the Supercomputing PACKage Manager.')
-parser.add_argument('-V', '--version', action='version', version="%s" % spack.version)
+parser.add_argument('-V', '--version', action='version', version="%s" % spack.spack_version)
 parser.add_argument('-v', '--verbose', action='store_true', dest='verbose')
 
 # each command module implements a parser() function, to which we pass its